In the first six months of this year, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) issued certificates to rehabilitate 142 persons subjected to political repressions in the Soviet era. Since 1989 and until present, the PGO has issued nearly 61,000 such certificates, it said in a press release.

A request for rehabilitation may be submitted to the PGO by those who were subjected to repressions for “counter-revolutionary activity”, “high treason”, “libelous inventions discrediting the Soviet state and civil order”, and for other “state crimes”. This also covers persons subjected to involuntary psychiatric treatment on political, national, religious or social grounds.

Requests are also accepted from those sentenced to Soviet concentration or filtration camps, those exiled or sentenced to forced labor, those sentenced for refusing to serve in the Red Army for political or religious reasons, those sentenced for participating in public rallies in pursuit of Moldova's sovereignty and independence, or those who were denied such rehabilitation in the past provided they haven't committed any non-political crimes in the meantime.

In other cases, the jurisdiction to examine rehabilitation requests is vested in the Ministry of the Interior and the courts of law.