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Today April 6, 2023, after almost two and a half years, Adrian Glijin was released from detention.

We recall that on October 7, 2020, around 1:00 p.m., Adrian, together with 3 other citizens, was kidnapped by unknown masked persons from a field near of the Cuzmin village, Camenca district (left bank of the Dniester river). After dozens of requests and approaches to the de facto administration, two months after the kidnapping, his relatives were informed that Adrian was accused of “treason against motherland” and is in detention in a solitary confinement in Tiraspol. In the meantime, Adrian’s family was subjected to more abuses. Representatives of the local security structures organized searches of the homes of the mother and wife, confiscated their personal belongings and vandalized the Glijin family’s means of transport.

In a press briefing on December 7, 2020, Pavel Voicu, Minister of Interior between 14.11.2019 and 06.08.2021, confirmed that the kidnappings organized by the law enforcement structures from the Transnistrian region occurred as revenge for the conviction of a former militiaman from the left bank of the Dniester River, involved in the kidnapping and torture of a couple from the Floresti district in April 2015.

Over the course of a year, relatives were declined the right to the meeting and information about Adrian’s medical condition. Just on 16.12.2021, after several efforts by the family and the Promo-LEX Association, which initiated the campaign  „Show him alive”, his mother, Vera Glijin, was able to have an approximately 60-minute meeting  at Remand centre No. 3 from the Tiraspol city. The meeting was not a confidential one and it was not possible to obtain complete and truthful information about his state of health and the concrete charges against him.

As a result of sending of a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in January 2022 by the lawyers of Promo-LEX Association, the High Court decided on the priority examination of the case and on application of provisional measures for the first time in one of the “Transnistrian cases”.

On May 6, 2022, Adrian was „convicted” by the so-called “supreme court” of the Transnistrian region to 13 years and 6 months in prison for alleged “treason against the motherland”, the sentence being later reduced to 13 years.

As a result of repeated abuses committed by representatives of the Tiraspol regime, the situation of Adrian Glijin is representative for the so-called local judicial system from the Transnistrian region: kidnapping, invented and politically motivated criminal charges, illegal detention in inhumane conditions, absolute restriction of access to the case materials, including the “sentence of conviction”, impossibility of medical examination by an independent doctor and repeated refusals to confidential meeting with relatives. Moreover, the 19-month detention period during which Adrian was in «preventive detention» (07.10.2020-06.05.2022), was also against local legislation, which establishes a maximum period of “preventive detention” of 18 months.

During his detention, Promo-LEX Association provided legal assistance to his family and constantly insisted on the ensuring of fundamental procedural guarantees, access to an independent doctor and release from illegal detention.