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After spending more than three years in detention, police officer Alexandru Ursu was freed today through a pardon decree by Transnistrian leader Yevgeni Shevchuk. According to the human rights group Promo-LEX, he is now at home with his family in Hagimus village Causeni district, Info-Prim Neo reports.

Alexandru Ursu, an investigator at the Hagimus police station, was imprisoned on charges of falsifying documents and using fraud to by an apartment in Bender.

Promo-LEX said the trial against him was merely formal and feigned, as a result of which he got sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. On 11 April 2011, Promo-LEX lodged an application with the European Court of Human Rights.

Ursu was detained for 3 years and 4 months at Prison no.1 in Hlinaia, Grigoriopol district.

Promo-LEX says that nearly 2,800 persons are being held illegally in the prisons on the eastern side of the Nistru. Some of them have turned to the ECHR for help.

Source: INFO-PRIM-NEO