Two policemen were sentenced to six years behind bars for beating two brothers. The third police officer who didn’t use physical force, but was a witness to the happening was put on probation for a five-year period, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

In 2012, police officers of the Basarabeasca Commissariat went to the home of the two brothers and took them away by the car by which they came by force. On the outskirts of the village, they told the brothers to admit that they stole a cassette recorder. As the men refused, the policemen ordered that they undress and get into the trunk. They took them to a forest near Taraclia town, where they beat them, threw their clothes away and left them there.

The three police officers were banned from working in the internal affairs bodies for five years. The court based its sentence on the testimonies of the victims and the prosecution witnesses, underlining the psychological trauma sustained by the victims.

According to statistical data of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the people in the first six months of this year submitted 320 complaints over use of torture and ill-treatment, as opposed to 394 complains in the corresponding period last year.