Alexandru Coliban, who was arrested in October 2011 and condemned by the unconstitutional Transnistrian authorities to two years and a half in jail, was set free by an order of the Transnistrian leader Yevgeny Shevchuk. Lawyer Pavel Postica of Promo-LEX Association, which provided legal advice to the family, has told IPN that the young man is already at home.

Alexandru Coliban’s family always asserted that the young man was arrested illegally, by order of the Transnistrian leader.

The young man’s mother Svetlana Coliban earlier related that Alexandru and a number of his colleagues distributed election posters against Yevgeny Shevchuk before the so-called presidential elections held in the region. In October 2011, several colleagues of his were arrested by the unconstitutional authorities. The young man left for Grigoriopol to support them, but was also arrested, being accused of ‘calumny’ and ‘hindering of the free exercise of the electoral right or of the work of the electoral bodies by distributing materials”.

The case of Alexandru Coliban was submitted to the ECHR.