Amnesty International-Moldova: new wave of HR violations expected

June 24, 2009

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The Amnesty International Moldova has apprehensions lest a new wave of human right violations [could] rise in Moldova after the 29 July early parliamentary elections.

AIM Executive Director Yevgeny Goloshapov told on Tuesday that after the 7-8 April events in Chisinau and a strong international reaction to them, human rights keep on being ignored in this republic.

‘Some April protesters have by now been accused of committing various criminal offenses, other were brutally beaten up, and profiled NGOs were subjected to thorough checks by controlling organs. We are not prophets and can't know what is going to happen after 29 July, but we would recommend all whom it may concern to study human rights well and to have a good lawyer before going out for protesting, even not political one’, Goloshapov said.

He called upon the Communist authorities to support human rights organizations and create normal working conditions for them, instead of doing vice versa. He warned that if Natalia Morari, Genadie Brega and Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca are pleaded guilty of fomenting the 7-8 April riots in Chisinau, the Amnesty International Moldova will consider them as prisoners of conscience.

‘We shall be doing all we can to protect them because they did not violate anything. They simply used their constitutional right to freedom of expression’, Yevgeny Goloshapov said.

According to him, over 150 persons have already addressed the Amnesty International Moldova, complaining they had suffered from the law enforcement after the April events in Chisinau.

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