Andrei Ivantoc

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Andrei Ivantoc

Andrei Ivantoc (born 9 March 1961 in Opaci, Causeni district) is a Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
n politician.

He was among the four leaders (the Ilie Ilascu

Ilie Ilascu

Ilie Ilascu is a Moldovan-born Romanian politician, famous for being Death sentence by the Separatism Transnistrian government for alleged involvement in two murders and for actions which have been described as Moldovan state-sponsored terrorism by Transnistrian government officials....
group, comprising also Alexandru Lesco

Alexandru Lesco

Alexandru Lesco was a member of the so-called Ilie Ilascu which in Transnistria received highly controversial sentences for war crimes and terrorism following the War of Transnistria....
and Tudor Petrov Popa) of the Tiraspol

Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the de facto independent Transnistria . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester....
branch of the pro-Romanian Christian-Democratic People's Party

Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova)

The Christian Democratic People's Party is a Christian democratic political party in Moldova. In the last legislative elections in Moldova on March 6, 2005, the party won 9.1% of the popular vote and 11 out of 101 seats....
of Moldova who were accused of terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
by the authorities of the breakaway Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR). The four were pro-Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n unionists fighting the PMR authorities who controlled most of Transnistria.

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Andrei Ivantoc (born 9 March 1961 in Opaci, Causeni district) is a Moldova

Moldova

Ilie Ilascu

Alexandru Lesco

Tiraspol

Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova)

Terrorism

Romania

14th Army involvement in Transnistria

The involvement of the Soviet Army 14th Guards Army in the War of Transnistria was extensive and contributed to the outcome, which left the Transnistria with de facto independence from the Republic of Moldova....
stationed in Moldova, and sentenced to 15 years of prison in a trial, which the European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg was established under the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 to monitor compliance by Contracting Parties....
considered to be unfairly conducted by the PMR authorities. On 9 December 1993, the Supreme Court of the PMR found Ivantoc guilty of murdering a representative of the State with the aim of spreading terror, unauthorised use and theft of ammunition or explosives, and assault. He was set free on 2 June, 2007. He was maltreated and beaten by the "separatist police" in front of the OSCE members at custom.

The trials in 1993 were considered by human rights groups to be unfair as the accused were allegedly tortured and forced to sign imaginary confessions. In 2004 the OSCE

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, human rights, freedom of the press, and fair elections....
and the European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg was established under the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 to monitor compliance by Contracting Parties....
in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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have ruled that the PMR and Russia

Russia

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should end his detention as well as the detention of the other inmates still held by the PMR authorities .

Ivantoc became a Romanian citizen in 2001 while in prison, and in March 2005, he was proposed by the Social Liberal Party

Social Liberal Party (Moldova)

The Social Liberal Party was a liberalism political party in Moldova, led by Oleg Serebrian.At the last legislative elections in Moldova, 6 March 2005, the party was part of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova , that won 28.4 % of the popular vote and 34 out of 101 seats....
as a candidate for the position of President of Moldova. On 27 February 2006, he started a hunger strike

Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fasting as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change....
in protest against the "abusive, inhuman and degrading treatment" he was receiving from the PMR authorities.

On June 2, 2007 Ivantoc was released by the PMR authorities, after pressures of the international community. After he was released he tried to reenter PMR-controlled territory without permission and was captured and beaten by the PMR security forces , then forced to leave the PMR and declared persona non-grata .

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