Thomas Hammarberg

REPORT by Thomas Hammarberg
Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Following his visit to Moldova – 25 to 28 April 2009

Table of Contents

Executive summary
I. Introduction
II. Persons deprived of their liberty by the police  
III. Deaths  
IV. Media issues and reporting on possible human rights violations
V. Conclusions and recommendations  
Appendix

Executive summary

Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg and his delegation visited Moldova two and a half weeks after the post-electoral demonstrations of 6-7 April 2009. The specific issue of the treatment of the people detained in relation to the events was the central focus of the Commissioner’s attention.

The majority of the persons interviewed by the Commissioner’s delegation, who had been arrested in connection with the April 2009 post-electoral demonstrations, alleged that they had been beaten – some of them severely – by police officers. In several cases, the medical expert accompanying the Commissioner directly observed physical marks consistent with those allegations. Moreover, the medical files in the establishments visited contained records of injuries which were consistent with the persons’ accounts.

The Commissioner recommended that decisive action be taken to adopt and enforce a firm attitude of “zero tolerance” of ill-treatment throughout the criminal justice system. Prosecutors, judges, senior police officers and lawyers should be attentive to allegations or signs of possible ill-treatment, and there needs to be proper screening, recording and reporting of injuries in police detention facilities.

Representatives of the Moldovan authorities accepted that police had abused their powers in the aftermath of the protests when dealing with persons deprived of their liberty, and expressed their resolve to overcome the problem of ill-treatment by the police. It was strongly underlined by the Commissioner that such large-scale violations of the fundamental right to be free of ill-treatment must never be allowed to recur, and that active steps must be taken to pursue accountability whenever individual cases of ill-treatment emerge. The Minister of the Interior and the Prosecutor General informed the Commissioner that many complaints concerning ill-treatment had been received and were being processed, and that investigations had been initiated ex officio.

supărati pe Consiliul Europei

Monitorizarea alegerilor 2009

Tot mai multă lume e supărată pe Consiliul Europei… Şi ce e mai straniu: supăraţi sunt şi cei de la putere, supăraţi sunt şi cei care se socot în opoziţie…

Oare până acum nu se ştia nimic despre “experţii” care ne vizitau ţara? Nu se ştia că stau prin baruri, şi caută fete frumoase, şi că sunt duşi pe la orăşelele subterane de la Cricova şi de la Mileştii Mici?…

De ce a tăcut toată lumea? Nu era problema ei? Dar a cui?

 

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Parliamentary Elections

 

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Monitoring

Parliamentary Elections

from Republic of Moldova

5 April 2009

 

Report no.1

Monitoring period:

05.02.2009 – 15.03.2009

 

Chisinau, R.Moldova

 

 Summary      

                                                   

I.                     Introduction                                                            

II.                   General conclusions                                                      

III. Observations

a.Election atmosphere

b. Media and election campaign

c. Follow-up of regulations regarding election advertising

d. Voters

e. Meetings witg voters

f.abusive use of administrative resources

g.”Active” involvement of police in election campaign

h. observers at elections from Moldova

i. monitoring the CEC behavior

j. Publication of information concerning political financing

IV. Recommendations

alegeri 2009

 

 

 
poeta Renata Verejanu,
preşedintele Academiei Europene a Societăţii Civile,
la Conferinţele de presă
pe care le-a ţinut la 9 martie, 16 martie 2009
a arătat un şir enorm de încălcări
din partea concurenţilor electorali.
Raportul pe prima lună a campaniei electorale,
în original, se găseşte
pe blogurile
Academiei Europene a Societăţii Civile,
Primul Club al Consiliului Europei şi
Agenţiei de Presă a Tinerilor Jurnalişti “AMP-Intenaţional”.

observator alegeri 2009

Sondaj

 În cadrul Conferinţei de presă

de la 17.03.2009, de la InfoTag,

poeta Renata Verejanu,

preşedintele Academiei Europene a Societăţii Civile,

a prezentat rezultatele sondajului

efectuat de ONG-urile din Reţeaua OMCT

care monitorizează

Alegerile parlamentare de la 5 aprilie 2009.

Sondajul a fost efectuat

în perioada 1-9 martie 2009,

pe un eşantion de 1011 persoane.

Sondajul a oferit intervievaţilor trei întrebări.

Întrebarea principală a fost:

“Pe cine veţi vota dacă aţi merge azi la alegeri?”

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