The European Court for Human Rights has notified the Governments of Moldova and the Russian Federation about the cases Beşleaga and Bevziuc (Application No. 29182/14) and Petis and Others (Application No. 6151/12).

In the first case, the applicants complained to the ECtHR under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, namely inhuman and degrading conditions of detention in the “isolation facility” No. 3 in Tiraspol and the “penitentiary institution” in the village of Hlinaia, under Article 5, on the illegality of their detention as ruled by so-called Transnistrian courts, and under Article 13 of the Convention, namely lack of effective remedies regarding their complaint under Article 5.

In the second case, the applicants argued violations under Article 5 of the Convention, with regard to the conditions of detention in “penitentiary” No. 1 in Tiraspol, and under Article 6 of the Convention, related to the right to a fair trial, noting that the so-called court in the Transnistrian region cannot be qualified as a court established by law, and thus the trial to which they were subjected was unfair as conducted in an illegal court.

Respondent Governments have until 28 and 27 January 2015 respectively to submit their comments on the cited cases.

See more details on the cases of Vitalii Beșleaga and Serghei Bevziuc see below.

More information about the case can be accessed on the website of the European Court for Human Rights.

For more details, contact: Alexandru Postica, Program Director of the Promo-LEX Association, Attorney at Law. tel: (22) 450-024, GSM: 069-104-851, email: [email protected].