Torture
Opposition urges CoE's Terry Davis to condemn Moldovan Communists
July 16, 2009The leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Vlad Filat, today sent an open letter to Council of Europe's (CE) Secretary-General Terry Davis, proposing that a new chapter on the 21st century communism should be added to the CE resolution...
Prosecutors seek to interrogate Mayor Chirtoaca on his U.S. visit
May 20, 2009The Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office asked that the Mayor General of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca provide explanations about the visit that he paid to the United States a week ago. Chirtoaca said on Monday that he received a letter, asking him what the...
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May 14, 2009House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused the CIA of misleading Congress about its use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terror detainees. "Yes I am saying the CIA was misleading the Congress, and at the same time the (Bush) administration...
- Amnesty International's Moldova Memorandum
April 18, 2009Memorandum: Concerns Relating to Policing during and after the Events of 7 April 2009 in Chişinău 17 April 2009 Hundreds of people, including minors, were detained in Moldova as the country's authorities clamped down following demonstrations which...
Sexual humiliation and torture of female protesters reported
April 17, 2009Police 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...
Third dead linked to anti-communist protests in Moldova
April 16, 2009Several reports from local media in Chisinau, as well as individual reports from civil society activists in Moldova, state that a third dead body of a 26 year young man was brought by the police to his parents in the town of Soroca (a city in Northen...
Moldova: The Republic of the Dead Voters
April 16, 2009By Dinu Popa As I’m writing this text, events in Moldova are developing fast. A wide rift is opening between the new and the old and the price is high for this generation gap. Hundreds of young people, men and women, have been arrested by the...
- November 27, 2007
The U.N. Committee Against Torture say U.S-made Tasers constitute a form of torture, throwing into question use of the increasingly common police tool. The United Nations panel, at a recent meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, likened the device's painful...
Report: U.S. vague on torture technique
November 05, 2007A senior U.S. State Department legal adviser in New York has refused to rule out abolishing an interrogation torture technique known as waterboarding. In a debate conducted by the British Guardian newspaper's U.S. Web site, Guardian America, adviser...
Denmark says it uses info from torture
October 11, 2007Denmark's prime minister said his country is against the use of torture but that information obtained by its use is a valuable resource. "Denmark emphatically condemns the use of torture," Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a news...
