The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided to examine the case of Boris Mozer v. Moldova and Russia as a priority case. The complaint was filed by Promo-Lex Association on February 24. The Governments of Moldova and Russia were given time by May 27 to explain why Boris Mozer was detained in a legal case started at the request of Interdnestrcom company, where he worked. Promo-Lex executive director Alexandru Postica has told Info-Prim Neo that Boris Mozer was arrested at his workplace in November 2008, suspected of misappropriation of funds. He had been under arrest until February 2009, when his state of health became critical. Now Boris Mozer is in hospital in a serious condition. According to the Association's jurist Promo-Lex Doina Ioana Straisteanu, they complained about the violation of Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights as the Transnistrian administration was allowed to create a legal and police system that is used to intimidate the residents of the region by using torture, holding persons in inhuman and insanitary conditions, intentionally violating all the human rights and freedoms. The Governments of Moldova and Russia are to answer if Boris Mozer was arrested legally and if the responsibility for his maltreatment by Transnistrian security officers is borne by them. Mozer's right to family life was also violated as his relatives were banned access to the place of detention, Ioana Straisteanu said. The case of Boris Mozer is the second priority case that the ECHR will examine this year, after the case of Matchenko. Both are similar to the case of Ilascu and others v. Moldova and Russia and concern serious violations of the human rights in the breakaway republic of Transnistria.