The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday found Moldova guilty in a case concerning inhuman detention conditions and ill-treatment and obliged it to pay €8,000 damages and €1,400 court costs to the plaintiff, Info-Prim Neo reports. In the case of Struc versus Moldova, plaintiff Oleg Struc, who was arrested in 2006 for aggravated hooliganism and for threatening a person with a knife, complained that he was maltreated by the police. He said he was illegally kept in inhuman and degrading conditions between October 30 and November 14, 2006. The plaintiff also invoked the excessive length of the criminal procedures, which lasted for four years. Oleg Struc asked for €86,000 in respect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and €2,800 court costs. The Court reduced his demand almost ten times. The same day, the ECHR also pronounced on the case of Ciorap versus Moldova, but the plaintiff’s application was rejected as groundless. The plaintiff, who was held in a national penitentiary in 2008, complained that he was banned from having long meetings with his wife and that he wasn’t provided with such food products as butter, eggs, fish and meat.