Sexual humiliation and torture of female protesters reported
Police tortured and sexually humiliated six young women arrested during the anti-communist protests in Moldova, according to hotnews.md and stireazilei.md, two web sites from Moldova. Lawyers representing these and other victims of police brutality in Moldova who held a press conference last week in the Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, stated that arrested females have been tortured and forced to perform humiliating tasks for the entertainment of male guards, gathered to watch.
Lilia Prodan, a lawyer from Chisinau declared that 3 out of 4 of her clients arrested after the April 7th protests have been tortured. Arrested females have been kept for two days without food or water, have been beaten by the guards and forced to sign false confessions, then to strip naked and do sit-ups and push-ups and stand in humiliating positions in front of a watching crowd of male guards as a punishment for participating in the opposition’s anti-communist rallies.
More than 160 of cases of mistreatment and torture by the police have been reported so far in Moldova. More than 200 people have been arrested during the last two weeks and 3 young men died, presumably of torture, after being arrested by the Moldovan police. Young people who openly supported the opposition after the elections have been arrested and forced to sign false confessions of participating in violent riots. They received no food and water, no medical or legal help and were threatened to get arrested again if they will participate in any of the opposition’s protests.
The rallies started when an estimated 30 thousand people gathered in the main square of Chisinau to protest the victory of the Communist Party in the presumably rigged Parliamentary elections. The three Moldovan Liberal parties in the opposition were expected to win the last elections but in a widespread election fraud Communists stole an estimated 10-30% of the votes.
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