Andrei Ivanțoc

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Andrei Ivanțoc
Căușeni district
Political partyChristian-Democratic People's Party

Andrei Ivanțoc (born 9 March 1961) is a

Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
(PMR).

Biography

Ivanțoc was born in

Căușeni district, Moldova. He and his three fellow-leaders were pro-Romanian unionists, fighting the PMR authorities who controlled most of Transnistria. Ivanțoc was arrested on 2 June 1992, and sentenced to 15 years of prison in a trial, which the European Court of Human Rights considered to be unfairly conducted by the PMR authorities. On 9 December 1993, the Supreme Court of the PMR found Ivanțoc 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.[1] He was maltreated and beaten by the "separatist police" in front of the OSCE members at custom.[2][3]

In 2004 the

PMR and Russia should end his detention as well as the detention of the other inmates still held by the PMR authorities.[4]

Ivanțoc became a Romanian citizen in 2001 while in prison, and in March 2005, he was proposed by the

inhuman and degrading treatment
" he was receiving from the PMR authorities.

On June 2, 2007 Ivanțoc 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,[5] then forced to leave the PMR and declared persona non-grata.[6]

He is a leader of the

Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova
.

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