Protests
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...
Report: 7 April riots in Moldova provoked by the communists
July 22, 2009The pogrom of the buildings of Parliament and Presidential Administration was organized and provoked by the ruling Communist Party. Members of the Council of Civil Society (CCS), who carried out an investigation of the events of 7-8 April, came to this...
Moldovan NGOs March Against Police Abuse, Torture
July 03, 2009Activists from several Moldovan human rights groups have held a march in downtown Chisinau to protest police brutality which, they say, in many cases amounts to torture, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Members of Amnesty International's Moldovan branch...
Details on MVD Order on Use of Force against Protesters
March 09, 2009by Paul Goble Despite statements by anonymous Interior Ministry officials that no order allowing the militia to shoot demonstrators exists and their denunciation of human rights leader Ludmila Alekseyeva for saying the contrary, each day is bringing...