CoE Ministers Committee will examine the realization of ECHR decision regarding the case “Ilascu and others vs. Moldova and Russia”

The way in which the decision of the European Court for Human Rights was realized in the Ilascu case will be examined at the meeting of the Council of Europe Ministers Committee that will take place on the 4th – 5th of July in Strasbourg. This will be the fourth meeting of this kind from the 6 planned ones for the year 2006. The Ilascu Group won at the European Court for Human Rights the case against the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation in July 2004. The court decided the immediate setting free of the two members of the Ilascu group who are still prisoners in Tiraspol, Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Petrov-Popa, who haven’t been set free until now. The Romanian senator Ilie Ilascu, former political prisoner of the unrecognized regime from Tiraspol, announced two weeks ago that he will request the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to withdraw the presidency statute of the Ministers Committee of the European Commission that Russia holds now on the basis that it doesn’t undertake any actions in order to set free the two prisoners.