{"id":15720,"date":"2018-09-03T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crjm.org\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2018-09-07T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:38:33","slug":"ong-urile-dezaproba-comportamentul-disproportionat-al-autoritatilor-la-protestele-din-26-27-august-si-1-septembrie-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.crjm.org\/en\/ong-urile-dezaproba-comportamentul-disproportionat-al-autoritatilor-la-protestele-din-26-27-august-si-1-septembrie-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society organizations are concerned about the way seven Turkish citizens have been detained and have to be expelled from the Republic of Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signatory organizations express their deep disappointment regarding the way the authorities of the Republic of\u00a0Moldova have exercised their duties in connection with the protests and public demonstrations that took place\u00a0in Chisinau municipality on 26-27 August and 1 September 2018. We will highlight some of the key issues that\u00a0we consider important for the public knowledge and in relation to which we request the authorities to take the\u00a0necessary measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a joint statement, the signatory organizations:<\/p>\n

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  1. condemn the way the authorities acted as regards the protests in the Great National Assembly Square\u00a0(Pia\u021ba Marii Adun\u0103ri Na\u021bionale – PMAN) and ask the Mayor’s office of Chisinau municipality and the police to provide public explanations shortly as to why they allowed the Shor Party the organization of demonstration in the PMAN on 26 August 2018, even if it did
    \nnot submit a prior declaration. The police and the Mayor’s office of Chisinau\u00a0municipality should have provided to Shor Party either another place for demonstrations or a shorter period for
    \nholding it, so that their demonstration did not to coincide with the other two protests (announced for 13:00 and\u00a014:00 respectively) given the imminent risk of altercations and the absence of prior declaration regarding the Shor\u00a0Party demonstration. Allowing Mr. Shor demonstration has in fact created situations of provocations and\u00a0altercations among the participants, which would have given the police \u201elegal\u201d reason to intervene forcefully\u00a0against the participants in the protest.<\/li>\n
  2. condemn restriction of the journalists\u2019 access to the events of 26-27 August 2018 and police inaction\u00a0when the representatives of Shor party have pushed the journalists off. We reiterate the statement by media\u00a0NGO’s of 28 August 2018 on preventing journalists from covering the events of 26-27 August and request the\u00a0competent authorities, first of all the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Interior, to investigate\u00a0promptly and impartially the cases reported in the statement.<\/li>\n
  3. condemn the way the police dispersed the protesters at the Stefan cel Mare monument in the morning of\u00a027 August 2018 and the brutal way in which the protesters were dispersed, despite the fact that they were peaceful and\u00a0in a much lower number than the policemen, presenting no danger to the lives and security of the latter<\/li>\n
  4. condemn and qualify as illegal the dispersal of the civic group of protesters OccupyGugu\u021b\u0103 and seizure of\u00a0their goods in the morning of 27 August 2018.<\/li>\n
  5. condemn and qualify as excessive the actions of the police and of the Government administration on 1\u00a0September 2018 against the participants in the Centenary March.<\/li>\n
  6. are concerned and require the Ministry of Interior to explain the presence of the persons in civilian\u00a0clothes alongside the police without the possibility of identifying them and the way how to identify the\u00a0policemen in balaclavas.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Signatory organisations reiterate that the peaceful protest is an important method of showing disagreement with certain\u00a0public policies. The way in which the protest is conducted and the conduct of public authorities at the protest is\u00a0an important indicator of the state of democracy in a state. The conduct of the public authorities of the\u00a0Republic of Moldova during the protests of 26-27 August and the demonstration of 1 September 2018 raised\u00a0many serious questions. Organisations request the competent public authorities – in particular the Mayor’s office of\u00a0Chisinau municipality, the Ministry of Interior and the Prosecutor General’s Office – to provide a comprehensive\u00a0analysis of the events of 26-27 August and 1 September 2018, thoroughly investigate all complaints regarding\u00a0those events and publish the results of the analysis and investigations within a short period of time.<\/p>\n

    Signatory organizations:<\/p>\n