Monday, December 18, 2006

Terry Davis Describes Imprisonment of Tiraspol Political Detainees as Violation of European Convention of Human Rights.

Chisinau, 11 December /MOLDPRES/ - Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis has said that the detention of Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Petrov-Popa is a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. Davis said that this year's International Human Rights day, [10 December], will mark the thirteenth anniversary since Ilie Ilascu, Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Petrov-Popa were sentenced by the so-called court in the so-called Moldovan Transnistrian republic. "While Ilie Ilascu, who was sentenced to death, was later released, Andrei Ivantoc and Tudor Petrov-Popa have been unlawfully detained ever since, and their imprisonment in an illegal jail in the middle of Europe is a disgrace and a blatant violation of the European Convention of Human Rights," according to a statement by Terry Davis. ...
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