A number of nongovernmental organizations appealed to the Disciplinary College of the Supreme Council of Magistrates, asking that it objectively examines the complaint against judge Dorin Popovich, who tried a number of persons in police sections in April 2009. The magistrates are to pass a disciplinary punishment on March 5, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We ask the Disciplinary College to pronounce on matters of public interest: why Dorin Popovich judged cases at the General Police Commissariat of Chisinau on April 9, how many cases he examined and what sentences he passed,” the NGOs say in a letter to the Supreme Council of Magistrates. “There are a number of questions that the Disciplinary College should answer before making a decision,” Ion Guzun, project coordinator at the Human Rights Institute, said in a news conference on March 2. He said the signatories of the letter want to know why the judge put Oxana Radu under 15-day arrest after a trial that lasted for several minutes. The letter was signed by the Moldova Institute for Human Rights, Promo-Lex Association, the Center “Memoria, CreDO, Amnesty International Moldova and other NGOs. The signatories demand that the circumstances relating to Dorin Popovich be taken into account in the case of other judges that tried administrative and legal cases breaching the Judge's Deontological Code.