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Strasbourg, 26.09.2007 - A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CPT) recently carried out an eleven-day visit to Moldova. The visit, which
began on 14 September 2007, was the CPT’s fourth periodic visit to that country.
During the visit, the CPT’s delegation reviewed the treatment of persons
detained by the police, including the application in practice of safeguards
against ill-treatment and conditions of detention in police establishments. It
also assessed the progress made by the Moldovan authorities in the area of
prisons, paying particular attention to the treatment provided to prisoners
suffering from tuberculosis and the situation of life-sentenced prisoners.
Further, the delegation visited Penitentiary establishment No. 13 in Chişinău in
order to examine the manner in which staff had handled a recent mass
disobedience by inmates. In addition, the delegation visited Chişinău Clinical
Psychiatric Hospital and, for the first time in Moldova, a social care home for
persons with psychiatric/mental disorders.
In the course of the visit, the CPT’s delegation held consultations with Vitalie
PÎRLOG, Minister of Justice, Igor BODORIN, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs,
Mircea BUGA, Deputy Minister of Health, Lucia GAVRILIŢĂ, Deputy Minister of
Social Protection, Family and Child, Vasile PASCARI, First Deputy Prosecutor
General, Vladimir TROFIM, Director of the Department of Penitentiary
Institutions, as well as other senior officials from relevant Ministries and
bodies. It also met Iurie PEREVOZNIC and Ivan CUCU, Parliamentary Advocates, and
held discussions with representatives of non-governmental and international
organisations active in areas of concern to the CPT.
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 CPT:
- Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI (Swiss),
Head of delegation
- Fatmir BRAKA (Albanian)
- Anna GAVRILOVA-ANCHEVA (Bulgarian)
- Roland MARQUET (Monégasque)
- Joan Miquel RASCAGNERES (Andorran).
They were supported by Petya NESTOROVA (Head of Division) and Johan FRIESTEDT of
the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by Cyrille ORIZET, psychiatrist, Georges
Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France (expert), and André VALLOTTON, former
Director of the Prison Service of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland (expert).
The delegation visited the following places:
Establishments under the Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Temporary detention isolator,
Chişinău Police Headquarters
- Temporary detention isolator,
Operational Services Department, Chişinău
- Temporary detention isolator,
Anenii Noi
- Temporary detention isolator,
Călăraşi
- Temporary detention isolator and
police station, Leova
- Temporary detention isolator and
police station, Străşeni
- Centru, Botanica and Rîşcani
district police stations, Chişinău
- Temporary placement centre for
minors, Chişinău
Establishments under the Ministry of Justice
- Penitentiary establishment No.
3, Leova
- Penitentiary establishment No. 8,
Bender (follow-up visit)
- Penitentiary establishment No. 13,
Chişinău (follow-up visit)
- Penitentiary establishment No. 17,
Rezina (follow-up visit)
- Penitentiary establishment No. 18,
Brăneşti
In addition, the delegation met medical staff at the Penitentiary Hospital in Pruncul with a view to assessing the treatment provided to prisoners suffering from tuberculosis.
Establishments under the Ministry of Health
- Chişinău Clinical Psychiatric Hospital
Establishments under the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child
- Cocieri psycho-neurological home for persons with psychiatric/mental disorders.
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