Moldova’s delegation to the Joint Control Commission condemns the anti-regulation and inadmissible behavior of the joint peacekeeping forces in the case of aggression and intimidation of journalists near Molovata Nouă village, IPN reports.

Peacekeepers’ actions dishonor their title, generate unwanted tensions in the Security Zone and discredit the peacekeeping mission among the population from both sides of the Nistru, Moldova’s Government says in a press release.

The three co-presidents so the Joint Control Commission ordered that the Joint Military Command should examine the situation in the shortest period of time possible so as to establish all the circumstances of this incident. The examination results will be reported to the Commission, which will take a decision in this case.

According to Viorica Tătaru, on July 21, while being near Molovata Nouă to collect facts for an article concerning war veterans, the journalist because the victim of intimidations and violence used by a soldier of the troops deployed at the security posts on the Nistru. He hit her and took away her cellphone, removing multiple files from this.

Later, when the journalist and her colleague got onto the ferryboat to cross the Nistru River, three peacekeepers stopped the ferry in order to arrest the two. As they refused to obey the illegal order of armed soldiers, the journalists and other passengers had to stay on the ferry for about an hour, until a police team came.

Media NGOs condemned the case and warned the legitimate authorities of the state about the gravity of the encroachments upon the nationally and internationally guaranteed human rights and freedoms by violating the right to bodily integrity, individual liberty and security and the special rights of journalists.