By bne IntelliNews An Albanian court convicted Fredi Beleri, an ethnic Greek Albanian and the elected mayor of the city of Himara, to two years in prison for buying votes, on March 5, in a ruling that has already exacerbated tensions with neighbouring Greece. Beleri was elected mayor of Himara despite being arrested ahead of the May 14, 2023 local elections on accusations of vote buying. The months-long detention of the elected mayor has sparked strong criticism from Greece, souring relations between Tirana and Athens, which has threatened to obstruct Albania’s EU accession process over the is…