82-year-old Enver Jakupi, a survivor of Spaç prison, spoke about his difficult life in a story in “For the Albanians”. He faced the most severe torture in prison, as a young man who wanted his country to be liberated from the regime of that time.
In his prison memoirs, Enver writes in his diary that he experienced the most inhuman torture. In 1984, the prison commander and 6 police officers massacred him. He talked a lot and talked to anyone, against the party and Enver Hoxha.
“The torture prison was Bulqiza, especially after the 1973 revolt in Spaç. After the revolt in Spaç, the prisoners were told: ‘Will you be beaten before or after breakfast?’
In the dungeon, the prisoners were beaten twice a day, they were given a blanket at midnight and taken away at 05:00 in the morning. The food was cabbage, or boiled leeks, almost spoiled vegetables, thin beans. The work was hard, in the mine and wherever there was a need.
I was released from prison on December 20, 1987. Sunday. Qafë bar, Pukë. They had notified me 10 days before I was going to be released, so they told me that the last 7-8 days would be spent in prison, the dungeon awaited me, the cruel beatings,” Enveri writes.
