Law No. 7895, Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania as amended

(1) Article 7 Implementation of the law on criminal acts committed by foreign nationals – letter j) - applies to criminal acts related to technological information field. 

(2) Article 74(a) - titled computer dissemination of materials pro genocide or crimes against humanity - states that "public provision or distribution of deliberate public through computer systems, materials, to deny, minimize, significantly approve or justify acts that constitute genocide or crime against humanity, punishable by imprisonment of three to six years."

(3) Recent amendments to the criminal code included specific legal provisions that are relevant to electronic communications, training for acts with terrorist purposes, public incitements, and to propagandize actions with terrorist purposes. The possession of content involving “terrorist propaganda” materials is also criminalized. The maximum prison terms provided by law for such offenses are 10 years for public incitement.

(4) The Albanian Criminal Code includes provisions governing matters relating to libel and insult (defamation), including the designation of insult against an individual or group of persons, insult through computer systems based on special motivations, and libel against an individual or a group of persons. The law envisages sanctions including fines and imprisonment for contraventions of the pertinent provisions. The highest penalty envisaged by Article 119 is imprisonment of up to one year; and by Article 120 up to two years.