Tiraspol detainee released on parole

Boris Mozer, a detainee in Tiraspol, has been conditionally released from detention after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examined his case, the human rights organization Promo-Lex said in a press release, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. Three months after the ECHR's notification of the respondent governments of Moldova and Russia, an illegitimate court in Tiraspol sentenced Boris Mozer to 7 years in prison for fraud, being released on a 5 years' probation. Boris Mozer was detained in November 2008 for allegedly defrauding the company for which he worked. He was asked to “confess” to the crime, which he claims he has not committed, and he signed all the “confessions” faced with threats to him and his relatives, including a mock execution and threats of a “real one” if he disobeyed. Due to the stress, his health condition bronchial asthma, an illness which he has since childhood, worsened and he suffered several suffocation fits. Alexandru Postica, lawyer with Promo-Lex, told a press conference today all the cases examined by the ECHR should determine the governments of Moldova and Russia to take action and remedy the situations of the detainees. “We hope the Russian Federation will change its attitude toward human rights violations (in Transnistria), because Russia usually avoids taking a stance, excusing itself by saying that that isn't its territory and it has nothing to do about with the state of affairs in that region, which we think isn't true”, stated Promo Lex chairman Ion Manole. The case of Boris Mozer was the second to be notified this year, after the case of Matcenco, and has to do with serious human rights violations in Moldova's Transnistrian region.