The government response to COVID-19 raised human rights concerns, including in relation to the right to health and freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and movement. No progress was made in addressing systemic torture and other ill-treatment. A new NGO law passed following civil society input....

Moldovan businessman Serghei Cosovan is unable to access essential health care in pre-trial detention for his acute cirrhosis. The authorities are ignoring medical grounds to support treatment in an external specialised hospital and have recently remanded him to 30 more days in pre-trial detention....

Eugen Fedoruc has been arbitrarily detained for almost a year in a psychiatric hospital near Chişinău, Moldova, after alleging that he was tortured to force him to confess to murder. The doctors have now stated publicly that there is no reason to hold him.

Police detained Natalia Morari on the evening of 13 April and told her that she was suspected of organizing mass public disorder and attempting to overthrow the state. She was released an hour later, and charged the following day with “organizing mass disorder” (Article 285), which carries a...

The authorities in Moldova have threatened to arrest a group of civil society activists who organized a peaceful demonstration, blaming them for the rioting that followed the next day. Amnesty International is concerned that the Moldovan authorities are attempting to blame them for violent rioting...

On 27 February 2009, the whereabouts of Gheorghe Ionel, became unknown. Gheorghe Ionel is mayor of Vorniceni and a member of an opposition coalition. It is believed that he may have been abducted by law enforcement officers as he was last seen being forced by police officers into a car outside the...

Valentin Besleag was released from police detention on 17 June. He was reportedly not beaten in detention, but was held in an overcrowded cell with bad ventilation, where the other detainees all smoked. He is currently receiving medical treatment for pneumonia and breathing difficulties.

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Ana Ursachi (f) and Roman Zadoinov (m), both lawyers who have worked closely with Amnesty International to issue Urgent Actions on torture cases, were informed on 28 June that they face criminal prosecution for spreading false information about human rights violations in Moldova. In a letter to the...

Vitalii Kolibaba, aged 27,allegedly been tortured in police custody, was released on bail on 15 May by the appeal court in the capital, Chisinau. Since his release he has undergone medical examinations which confirm that he has injuries consistent with his allegations of torture. The criminal...

Sergei Gurgurov was released on bail on 12 May.

Vitalii Kolibaba has reportedly been tortured at Buiucani district police station in the capital of Moldova, Chisinau. Amnesty International believes that he is at risk of being tortured again.

Sergei Gurgurov, who was arrested in October 2005 but released on bail, was arrested again on 18 April by officers from the same police station, and accused of violating his bail conditions. He was tortured in custody after his previous arrest, and had been undergoing medical treatment for the...