Over 30 cases of torture sent to Moldovan courts
"The Prosecutor General's Office presently has to consider more than 115 complaints of torture following the 6-7 April riots. Over 30 cases were submitted to law courts," a lawyer from the Institute for Human Rights, Ion Guzun, said.
"The Institute for Human Rights has recorded over 700 cases of torture following the 7 April [protests against election results] events," Guzun said.
The director of the Resource Centre for Human Rights, Sergiu Ostaf, told journalists that the government should look for alternative solutions to avoid torture cases. One of them would reside in having reprimand centers pass from the subordination of police commissariats to the one of the Justice Ministry. Another solution would be to creat so-called arrest houses, according to new standards, which would allow detaining people up to 72 hours, Ostaf said.
On 11 and 12 December, the United Nations Organization’s Committee Against Torture heard a report on the observance of the right not to be subjected to torture. The Resource Centre for Human Rights, the Institute for Human Rights and the National Centre of Rroma presented alternative reports. After the reports had been heard, the UN Committee Against Torture made a string of recommendations to Moldova to improve the situation in this sector. Moldpres
Moldpres, Moldova's state news agency
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