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Strasbourg, 04.08.2009 – A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit to Moldova from 27 to 31 July 2009.
The main purpose of the visit was to assess the manner in which investigations were and are being carried out into cases possibly involving ill-treatment by members of police forces in the context of the post-election events in April 2009 in Chişinău. The visit also provided an opportunity to review the treatment of persons detained by the police.
The CPT’s delegation visited the Temporary detention facility of the General Police Directorate and Centru and Ciocana district police stations in Chişinău. It also had a series of interviews in private, including at Penitentiary establishment No. 13, with alleged victims and witnesses of police ill-treatment at the time of the April events and examined in detail a number of relevant investigation files. It also spoke to several members of police forces involved during the events, including the “Fulger” special police force.
In the course of the visit, the delegation held discussions with Vitalie PÎRLOG, Minister of Justice, Valentin ZUBIC and Ghenadie COSOVAN, Deputy Ministers of Internal Affairs, Vasile PASCARI, First Deputy Prosecutor General and Anatolie MUNTEANU, Parliamentary Advocate. The delegation also met with representatives of international and non-governmental organisations, members of the Moldovan Bar Association and defence lawyers.
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations to the Moldovan authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the Committee:
- Silvia CASALE, Head of delegation (British)
- Marija DEFINIS GOJANOVIĆ (Croatian).
They were supported by Johan FRIESTEDT of the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by Eric SVANIDZE, former Head of the International Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia.
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