Commentary on Tiraspol's initiative to criminaly persecute people notifying about infringement of human rights in Transnistrian region

Chisinau, 23 February /MOLDPRES/ - The Reintegration Policies Bureau is alarmed and expresses deep concern about Tiraspol’s intention to establish criminal punishments against citizens due to denounce or submit complaints to the national competent authorities or to specialized international courts and which will regard the cases of abuse or infringement of human rights, committed by representatives of structures from the Transnistrian region, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.      

The concerned initiative is extremely dangerous and will contribute to the worsening of the already complicated situation as to the observance of human rights in the administrative and territorial units from the left bank of Dniester and Bender municipality, with the greater limiting of the right to defence, right to petitioning, right to person’s physical and psychic integrity, freedom of opinion and expression and many other constitutional rights and guaranteed by the international conventions.    

We resolutely condemn this provocative intention able to stimulate the political persecutions and to quite seriously harm the human fundamental rights and freedoms and we insistently urge to give up its enforcement, in order to avoid the appearance of the forms of proper legal responsibility as to the factors responsible of such inadmissible abuses and intervening with discouraging measures of response, within the limits of the normative framework in force.   

At the phase of dialogue and prevention of undesired consequences, the concerned message was submitted through the channel of communication of the political representatives, with the request to Tiraspol to give up the inhuman intentions and incompatible with the standards of the international law.

The actors of the 5+2 format of negotiations and the relevant international partners have been notified as well, with a call to use all leverages of intervention available, in order to cease the unlawful acts of this kind and prevent attempts of abusive infringement of the universally guaranteed rights and freedoms of the residents from the two banks of Dniester.