The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recommended the Moldovan Government to eliminate violations of the law, committed against Andrei Bastovoi and his son Valentin, announced lawyer Roman Zadoinov during Tuesday’s news conference at Infotag.

Members of the parliamentary ad hoc commission for Padurea Domneasca tragedy investigation, former Communist parliamentarians Alexander Petkov and Grigore Petrenco, are demanding that competent international structures be mobilized to investigation of the tragedy that happened in the Padurea Domneasca national park over 2 years ago.

Twenty deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe are demanding an immediate release from custody of the activists of the Antifa [anti-fascist] organization and Patria Party, ex-Communist MP Grigore Petrenco, who is an incumbent Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, announced at a news conference at Infotag today, and showed a copy of the European parliamentarians’ statement.

If local elections were held in Moldova, one of four Moldovan citizens would not know for which party to give his vote, shows the opinion poll “Vox Populi: 2014 in perception of Moldovan citizens”, conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers on January 8-20 among 1171 respondents from 79 localities. The level of error is of ±3%.

Several criminal groups are operating in Moldova, which falsify litigations and, by using corrupt judges, take successful businesses away from citizens, said expert Igor Caldare and lawyer Denis Ureche at their Tuesday’s news conference at Infotag.

Expert Igor Caldare and businessman Denis Ureche are complaining about the Prosecutor general’s Office, which, in their point of view, does not investigate cases, linked to money withdrawal from the Banca de Economii (BEM, Moldova’s savings bank).

The Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova (CALM) called pro-European parties to address the problems of local administrations by means of power decentralization, says the CALM leadership’s statement, made public at the Tuesday’s news conference at Infotag.

The case of the informal Antifa [anti-fascist] group is a political order made by the governing majority parties of Moldova, and Mikhail Amerberg and Pavel Grigorciuc, arrested within this case, are political prisoners, maintains MP Grigore Petrenco, Deputy Chairperson of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Moldova citizens Pavel Grigorciuc and Mikhail Amerberg were arrested on an invented pretext, and the criminal case started against them is but a political order given by the authorities, maintains the detainees’ lawyer Roman Aronov.

The family of MP Ion Butmalai, LDP, who was found dead in his house garage last week, do not believe it was a suicide.

Home violence victims do not perceive Home violence victims as a crime but as a personal challenge. These are the research results on access to justice of home violence victims and exercise of their rights to receive legal assistance in Moldova, conducted by the by the international La Strada Center for Woman’s Rights Protection and Promotion on April 15 through June 17, 2014.

On the World Human Rights Day – December 10, the Transnistrian refugees said they will continue fighting for their rights and called the rest of citizens to follow their example.

Moldovan environmentalists, who, together with colleagues from Romania and Ukraine, have been realizing a joint project “Cross-border interdisciplinary cooperation for the prevention of natural disasters and mitigation of environmental pollution in Lower Danube Euroregion”, are warning about the danger of pollution in the region.

The number of people in Moldovan mental hospitals, who have voted at the November 30 parliamentary elections, went up almost twofold against 2010 elections. The data was presented by the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) as a result of monitoring, conducted on the Election Day in institutions of this type.

After exclusion of Patria Party from the election race on November 30, the Central Election Commission (CEC) should apply the same rules of law in relation to the Democratic Party of Moldova (DP) and exclude it from the list of election candidates, considers independent candidate on parliamentary elections, municipal counselor Oleg Cernei.