Aleksandra Bogdani has spent the best part of a decade covering crime, corruption and courtroom stories in Albania.

She is currently a senior editor at MAPO newspaper. She previously worked for Shekulli newspaper and Top News TV. Her fellowship story looks at the lives of the victims of Albania's communist regime.
Former political prisoners want truth and compensation – but their quest has become entangled in the country’s murky politics.
Having spent half his life in a labour camp, 71-year-old Lavdrim Ndreu was not troubled by the history of his apartment. He couldn’t care less that the small bedroom had served as a toilet for the Partizani football team, or that the rest of the building had been used as the club’s boiler house.