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Preliminary observations by Council of Europe anti-torture
Committee (CPT) after visit to Moldova in
September 2007
Strasbourg - 07.11.2007 – The CPT’s fourth periodic visit to Moldova, carried
out in September 2007, provided an opportunity to assess the progress made since
the previous periodic visit in 2004 and the ad hoc visit in November 2005.
Particular attention was paid to the treatment of persons detained by the police
and to the practical operation of safeguards against ill-treatment. The
Committee’s delegation stressed the need for a more proactive approach from
prosecutors, judges and senior police officers to make sure that no case of
ill-treatment goes unnoticed and that the perpetrators of such acts are
punished.
The CPT’s delegation also examined in detail various issues related to prisons,
including the treatment provided to prisoners suffering from tuberculosis and
the situation of life-sentenced prisoners. Further, it 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 Cocieri. As regards the latter establishment,
particular concerns were expressed with respect to the numerous allegations of
ill-treatment of residents by staff and the high number of deaths of residents
in recent years.
The preliminary observations are published
with the agreement of the Moldovan authorities.
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