A number of NGOs demand the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Internal Affairs Ministry (IAM) to probe the cases of torture, especially the ones after the April turmoil, and to sack the policemen to be found guilty of ill-treatment. Representatives of those NGOs picketed the GPO's quarters on July 2, the they marched to the Interior Ministry and continued their action, Info-Prim Neo reports. The participants wore symbolical bandages, as a signed of being tortured. They were telling passers-by about forms of torture and called them to get sympathetic with the victims, putting their signatures on large sheets of paper. Those were sent to prosecutors and then the protesters headed for the Interior Ministry. The manifestation is a continuation of the protests started on June 26, on the occasion of the International Day supporting torture victims, proclaimed by the UN. “We realize a single one-day effort is absolutely inefficient to draw the public attention to the inadmissibility of torture. We understand we must continue these actions,” said Sergiu Ostaf, the executive manager of the Human Rights Resources Center (CReDO). Evghenii Golosceapov, the leader of Amnesty International Moldova, has said the action is symbolical, but it is meant to highlight grave things. “There is still torture in Moldova,” he stated. They collected over 15 hundred signatures in a campaign “Together against torture,” launched by Amnesty International Moldova on June 26. According to a recent research, launched on July 1 by a number of NGOs, about 700 people were detained by police following the April 7 revolt. Over half of them maintain they were ill-treated and beaten by police. When asked by Info-Prim Neo, the GPO's spokeswoman Maria Vieru has said, from April 12 to June 26, only 95 persons lodged complaints with prosecutors claiming they were beaten by police. 6 cases are probed, but none was filed to court. Maria Vieru says each complaint of protesters is being considered separately, and prosecutors will investigate them if there are grounds. The spokeswoman of the Interior Ministry, Ala Meleca, has reiterated the Ministry observes the law on assemblies, refraining from making any other statements.