Protests
U.N. Committee against Torture to talk about Moldova
November 03, 2009The United Nations Committee Against Torture has opened its 43rd session in Geneva. During the opening, Secretary-General Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights and Treaty Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Torture victims and witnesses need state's protection in Moldova
November 03, 2009To accelerate detection of crimes, the State ought to ensure a reliable protection for torture victims and torture witnesses to thus let them speak out truth during and after investigation, presumes Deputy Director of the Institute for Penitentiary Reforms...
Moldovan parliament sets up commission to probe postelection riot
October 21, 2009The Moldovan parliament has set up a special commission in charge of investigating the causes and consequences of the 7 April mass riots in Chisinau. The commission has nine members representing all five parliamentary factions. Under the decision passed...
Moldovan Officials Say Blast An 'Act Of Terror'
October 16, 2009Moldovan officials say the explosion of a grenade at a concert in downtown Chisinau on October 14 that left some 40 people injured was an "act of terror," RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Prosecutor-General Valeriu Zubko said police initially...
- Report: Moldovan police beat over 300 peaceful protesters in April
October 14, 2009Moldovan police beat and otherwise ill-treated at least 300 peaceful protesters of the nearly 700 they detained following the parliamentary elections in April, says a report released today by the Soros Foundation – Moldova. In at least 100 cases...
Moldovan police officer charged of torturing a minor
October 07, 2009The Moldovan prosecutor office has completed investigation into the criminal case of a Chisinau cop being accused of a particularly zealous using of torture and other forms of inhuman treatment of persons detained after the April 7-8 events in Moldova...
Hundreds protest in Chisinau against increased utility tariffs
October 01, 2009Several hundreds of retirees on 30 September protested against the latest increase in tariffs on water supply and public transport fares in Moldova's capital, the Moldovan ProTV Chisinau channel has reported. ProTV noted that the protesters asked for...
Moldovan politician's sons leave Romanian embassy after one year
September 24, 2009Brothers Adrian and Roman Mocanu today left the Romanian embassy in Chisinau, which they illegally entered on 25 September 2008. In a statement for the media, politician Sergiu Mocanu, Adrian and Roman's father, has said that his sons could leave the...
Acting Moldovan president: We will investigate the 7 April riots
September 23, 2009The acting Moldovan president and parliament speaker, Mihai Ghimpu, has said that "the new Moldovan leadership is set to bring the investigation into the reasons for the 7 April riots in Chisinau to an end". He was speaking in the Obiectiv...
Top Moldovan prosecutor: Romania not officially involved in riots
July 24, 2009Nobody has ever said that Romania was involved in the 7 April events - street protests against the alleged rigging of the 5 April parliamentary election. A statement to this effect was made today by Moldova's Prosecutor-General Valeriu Gurbulea. Gurbulea...