An urgent decision by the Tirana Court has changed the course of a case that raised serious questions about how a measure was enforced against a mother of three children. Dorina Sejdini, 34, has been released from Pojskë prison after the court ordered the suspension of her arrest and the annulment, for now, of her two-month prison sentence.
The court ruling changes the status of the case
The ruling was issued by judge Edvan Velçani, who urgently reviewed the 34-year-old’s request for reinstatement of the deadline. With this act, her arrest is suspended and the two-month prison sentence is, for the moment, annulled.
This means Sejdini is no longer considered to be under a final court decision, and her case now awaits review by the Tirana Court of Appeal. In practice, the case returns to a stage where the previous decision can no longer be treated as closed.
Arrest after returning from Germany and transfer to Pojskë
The 34-year-old woman, the mother of three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 7 months, was arrested as soon as she returned from Germany. She had been sentenced by the Tirana Court of First Instance to two months in prison for domestic violence.
The case drew strong attention because, after being sent to Pojskë prison, she requested that her children be brought close to her in the cell. The 7-month-old baby was then immediately handed over to the penal institution, where the woman was accommodated in facilities designated for convicted mothers with minor children.
Questions over the procedures followed by the authorities
The way the decision was enforced by the authorities prompted reactions and institutional checks. The Ombudsman, together with two commissioners, intervened to examine the conditions and procedures of her imprisonment.
Along the same lines, Endri Shabani said that if the woman were not released, there would have been procedural violations. There was also a reaction from the President of the Republic, who requested a proposal from the Ministry of Justice on the possibility of a pardon, if it turns out that Sejdini is not a beneficiary of the 2026 criminal amnesty.
The immediate release of the 34-year-old does not close the case on its merits, but returns it to a stage where the Court of Appeal will have to examine not only criminal responsibility, but also the procedural shadows that emerged after the enforcement of the decision.
This is precisely where the core of the public debate lies: not only what the court decided, but how the institutions acted up to the moment the case erupted into public attention.