The Bureau for Reintegration Policy welcomes Adrian Glijin’s release from detention, saying that his situation can serve as an example in many other similar cases of human rights violations in the Transnistrian region.

“During this period, the Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration and the Bureau of Reintegration Policy made sustained efforts for (Glijin’s) unconditional release, making use of all available dialogue platforms. Also, being in permanent contact with the actors in the negotiation format for the Transnistrian settlement, all the necessary steps were taken to restore the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizen Glijin”, the Bureau stated in a press release.

According to the Bureau, Adrian Glijin’s situation can serve as an example in many other similar cases of violation of human rights in the Transnistrian region, including those of V. Pleșcanov, G. Kuzmiciov, V. Dudnic, V. Pogorlețchi, S. Mantaluta, M. Petiș and many other Moldovan citizens who suffer as a result of Tiraspol’s illegal actions.

After two and a half years, Adrian Glijin was yesterday released from detention. He was kidnapped in October 2020, along with three other citizens, by unknown and masked persons, from a field near the town of Cuzmin, Camenca district. On May 6, 2022, he was “sentenced” by the so-called “supreme court” of the Transnistrian region to 13 years and 6 months in prison for alleged “high treason”, with the sentence was later reduced to 13 years. The authorities in Chisinau stated at the time that the kidnappings were in revenge for a former Transnistian police officer being convicted for his role in the kidnapping and torture of a Florești couple in April 2015.