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Рy17 December 2015
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Non-governmental organizations working in the field of mass media are expressing their worry about the intimidation notified by the editorial board of the investigative weekly newspaper Ziarul de Garda in the declaration of December 16, 2015. We are drawing the attention of the leadership and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that such interference is illegal and antidemocratic, and obstruction of mass media activities by using one’s official position is penalized by the Criminal Code of Moldova.
We are asking the leadership of the Moldovan parliament and specialized parliamentary commissions (commission for culture, education, research, youth, sport and mass media; commission for national security, defense and public order) to initiate an investigation in order to identify the names of the persons involved in the attempt to intimidate an independent periodical and in the interference with its editorial activity and to bring them to responsibility; to investigate and explain the situation in which a person allegedly prepared and proposed a bribe to a reporter, which is undoubtedly a criminal action; and to clarify the circumstances in which the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs visited the office of Ziarul de Garda in order to find out “whether an article is being prepared about the minister of internal affairs.” Also, we are asking for clarification of eventual involvement into this case of the acting minister of internal affairs Oleg Balan and interim head of the General Police Inspectorate Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, who was the protagonist of a journalistic investigation conducted by Ziarul de Garda.
We are asking parliamentary commissions to promptly inform the public about the course of investigation and public institutions to exclude such antidemocratic slides in their work.
Association of Independent Press
Independent Journalism Center
Association of Electronic Press of Moldova
Center of Journalistic Investigations
Committee for Press Freedom
Association of Independent TV Journalists
“Acces-Info” Center
Young Journalist Center of Moldova
We are asking the leadership of the Moldovan parliament and specialized parliamentary commissions (commission for culture, education, research, youth, sport and mass media; commission for national security, defense and public order) to initiate an investigation in order to identify the names of the persons involved in the attempt to intimidate an independent periodical and in the interference with its editorial activity and to bring them to responsibility; to investigate and explain the situation in which a person allegedly prepared and proposed a bribe to a reporter, which is undoubtedly a criminal action; and to clarify the circumstances in which the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs visited the office of Ziarul de Garda in order to find out “whether an article is being prepared about the minister of internal affairs.” Also, we are asking for clarification of eventual involvement into this case of the acting minister of internal affairs Oleg Balan and interim head of the General Police Inspectorate Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, who was the protagonist of a journalistic investigation conducted by Ziarul de Garda.
We are asking parliamentary commissions to promptly inform the public about the course of investigation and public institutions to exclude such antidemocratic slides in their work.
Association of Independent Press
Independent Journalism Center
Association of Electronic Press of Moldova
Center of Journalistic Investigations
Committee for Press Freedom
Association of Independent TV Journalists
“Acces-Info” Center
Young Journalist Center of Moldova
