Torture
Three years later after a violent turmoil, Moldova did not bring justice to those affected
The tragic events which happened three years ago on April 7 have made several victims: teenagers beaten up to death and other youngsters and children kidnapped on the streets. The tragic event took place in 2009 after thousands of people took to the streets...
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 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...
Moldovan NGOs March Against Police Abuse, Torture
Activists 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...
