Chisinau has asked Tirapsol to abandon its plans for introducing criminal penalties against the residents of the unrecognized republic who bring their human rights complaints to the Moldovan authorities or international courts.
The Moldovan Bureau for Reintegration Policy said in a statement that the initiative is “extremely dangerous” and will “further aggravate the already complicated situation” with the observance of human rights in the Transnistrian region. “This will further limit the right to defense, to petitioning, to physical and mental integrity, the freedom of belief and expression, the freedom of assembly and many other constitutional rights that are also enshrined in international treaties”.
“The Bureau is calling on the 5+2 negotiations stakeholders and on relevant international partners to make use of all intervention instruments available to stop such lawlessness from happening”, reads the statement.
The news of the intention was broken by the Tiraspol-based former political detainee Gennady Chorba. Posting on his Facebook account, he said that the legislative proposal came from Transnistria’s de facto chief prosecutor Anatoly Guretsky. Under the proposal, complaining to the Moldovan prosecutors or to the European Court of Human Rights would be punishable in Transnistria by up to seven years in jail.
