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Torture is no more so severe in Moldova, experts


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The forms of torture in Moldova are no more so severe and the Government is making effort to combat this phenomenon, but challenges of the kind still persist in the country, experts of the Atlas of Torture Project Julia Kozma and Johanna Lober said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. “In 2011, within the EU-funded Atlas of Torture Project, a team of experts directed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak analyzed how effectively the recommendations contained in the Special Report on Torture were implemented. The team consulted the competent ministries, representatives of the judiciary, the prosecutor’s office, the national torture prevention mechanism and of the international community and Moldovan civil society,” Julia Kozma, who is a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture, has told Info-Prim Neo As a result of a two-week visit to Moldova, the project team identified a number of improvements and a series of challenges faced by the Moldovan authorities when taking steps to prevent torture and ill-treatment. The project is implemented in five countries selected according to a number of criteria, including: the Government’s wish to improve the situation as regards torture, the readiness of the civil society organizations involved to cooperate with the Atlas of Torture Project and potential synergies and interweavements with similar projects implemented by national or international players. In 2008, Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak paid a fact-finding visit to Moldova, including the Transnistrian region. He ascertained that the torture existing in police commissariats derives from structural and legal shortcomings. Owing to these shortcomings, the Atlas of Torture Project and the monitoring of the situation in the country were continued.