Monitors point out multiple violations of human rights after 4 years of implementing a relevant National Plan
- 02.07.2008 06:50
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The monitors of the Human Rights National Action Plan (HRNAP) find some progress, but even more violations of the human rights, especially torture and physical and psychic constraint on detainees waiting for their trial. The progress and drawbacks in implementing the HRNAP from 2004 to 2008 were discussed at public hearings in Chisinau on Wednesday organized by the Human Rights Parliamentary Commission, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Evaluating the Plan's implementation has been carried out as part of the UNDP. The monitors have found that the risk of being corrupting judges remains high. They have also found drawbacks in training human rights coordinators within central and local public authorities, frequent violations related to the police's obligation to tell the arrested their motives for which they are taken into custody, faults in observing reasonable terms of dealing with law suits in courts, etc. “In general, we have found that the part related to adopting the legislation envisaged by the HRNAP has been accomplished. The drawbacks consist of frequently violating the legislation in the day-to-day life,” a UNDP consultant, Victor Zaharia, has said.
According to the Committee chairman, Stefan Secareanu, during four year, they have undertaken a series of concrete actions in areas as: the respect of the right to justice, the execution of writs, the prevention of torture. But, they have also recorded abuses on behalf of law-enforcing bodies, which have led to severely breaching the human rights. Stefan Secareanu says the faulty implementation of the legislation is because of the human factor.
On the other hand, the deputy minister of justice, Nicolae Esanu, says most of the faults are because of poor financing. He exemplifies that this is why the pre-trial jails have not been transferred from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry. “This provision of the HRNAP will not be able to be carried out next, either. Building an arrest house requires 80 million lei,” the vice minister said.
“Despite the measures undertaken, we find the police admit severe infringements of the human rights,” says deputy Interior minister, Andrei Pogurschi. He counted such often met violations as illegally obtaining evidence, pursuing personal and material interests, exercising the law abusively and without being aware of it.
In this respect, this year only, the Domestic Affairs Ministry has sacked 148 employees for power abuse as 70 criminal investigations are under way, 34 of which for power abuse, constraint to make confessions, etc. “The Ministry's leadership is aware there are still too many reserves related to training the personnel, to the police's attitude towards exerting personal duties,” the official said.
The Human Rights National Action Plan for the year 2004-2008 was approved by the Parliament on October 24, 2003.
