On 23 May, the Department for the Execution of Judgments participated in a workshop held in Chișinău on the preventive and compensatory remedy to challenge poor conditions of detention and the lack of adequate medical assistance in detention in the Republic of Moldova, which entered into force in 2019.
The workshop brought together judges of lower and higher courts, the National Administration of Penitentiaries, the Government Agent, the civil society organisation Promo-LEX, as well as international consultants from Italy and Romania, who shared their experience with the implementation of similar domestic remedies.
The participants discussed the relevant Convention standards and the European Court’s case-law (notably the Court’s judgments in the group I.D. v. Republic of Moldova), challenges in providing medical assistance in detention (Cosovan group of cases) and regarding the implementation of the remedy by the domestic courts.
The event took place within the framework of the Council of Europe Project “Strengthening the Human Rights Compliant Criminal Justice System in the Republic of Moldova” implemented by the Co-operation Programmes Division of the Council of Europe.
