ECHR convicts Russia in case of Ivantoc and Others v. Moldova and Russia
- 16.11.2011 06:47
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Former political detainees of the Transnistrian regime Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Popa won a case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights. Russia was obliged to pay the applicants €160,000 in respect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Russia is to pay damages for the fact that Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Popa had been illegally detained until 2007, despite the ECHR’s decision on the case of Ilascu and Others v. Moldova and Russia of July 8, 2004, whereby the two states were obliged to make sure that the detainees were immediately set free, Deputy Minister of Justice Vladimir Grosu told a news conference. Moldova was absolved from paying damages.
The case refers to the continuous non-fulfillment of the Grand Chamber’s decision of July 2004. The Grand Chamber ruled that Iascu and the other plaintiffs were illegally held under a decision by a Transnistrian court and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment and torture, and ordered that the authorities of Moldova and Russia take all the measures to hasten the release of the detainees.
As Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Popa weren’t set free in 2004, the plaintiffs filed a new application to the ECHR in 2005.
”On November 15, the ECHR decided that Moldova fulfilled its obligations to guarantee the rights of the plaintiffs through the European Convention on Human Rights, since July 2004,” said Vladimir Grosu.
The High Court also ruled that Russia is responsible for the violation of plaintiffs’ rights and that Moscow continues to have a close relation with the separatist Transnistrian regime, providing military, political, financial, economic and other kinds of support to it.
