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Many Americans lack confidence in health care system (video)
By Carol Pearson The health care debate in the United States is far from over despite the passage of health care legislation. Studies show about half of Americans lack confidence in their health care system. Others are pushing for a repeal of the health...
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. "...
U.N. Committee against Torture to talk about Moldova
The 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
To 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
The 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'
Moldovan 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
Moldovan 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
The 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
Several 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
Brothers 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...
