Yesterday, 23.06.2009 Anatol Mătăsaru was one step from getting back into the prison. A prosecutor - Sergiu Roşu - asked the judge to change Anatol present home arrest type of detention in a penitentiary type of detention, because Anatol although in home arrest receives guests, and some of them (an active contributor to this blog: Oleg Brega and his brother Ghenadie) filmed Anatol and later posted the videos on the website of a nongovernmental organization (Hyde park, and the web site is www.curaj.net). Fortunately, the judge dismissed the prosecutors allegation as ungrounded. Presently Anatol is "half-free" back to home arrest. However, his wife seems to be very disturbed by the prosecutor's harassment. To remind you, she is in her third month of pregnancy.

In one of these videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENzfUtIbx7s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F

Anatol says that while, on the 8th of April, in arrest he witnessed how the police officers carried the body of an unconscious young men. Anatol said he couldn't see the man's face. On the other video Julita, his wife makes fun of Anatol ungrammatical writing, and his inability to use commas when it is appropriate.

The third video captures the car outside Anatol's house in which the police officers that guard Anatol spend their time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHf6V13d1Zg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F


In this context, here is an interesting text issued a couple of day ago by the Amnesty International Moldova:

Moldova: Serious human rights concerns remain
Amnesty International is concerned that two months after the demonstrations in Chisinau - which followed the parliamentary elections on 5 April and led to rioting from 7 April 2009 - little progress has been made in investigating the hundreds of allegations of police ill-treatment and torture. The organization is also concerned that civil society activists and opposition politicians are being prosecuted and may face imprisonment for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression and that local NGOs are being targeted apparently for their human rights monitoring activities. Repeat elections are scheduled for 29 July and Amnesty International fears a new wave of human rights violations....

here is the full text of the document:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR59/006/2009/en/8aa0e17b-eb68-4d80-88e6-1d66b77ca220/eur590062009en.html

Marina Salmaso

It seems that the postcard I addressed to Anatol while he was in prison never reached him. Well, this is the risk one takes when sending snail mail: the mail-object might never reach the destination...

Now Anatol is in home arrest. He has police officers guarding the entrance doors
of his house. Meanwhile the solidarity works with A. Matasaru keep ariving:
Bellow are the scans of a work that came from Danemrak:

MATASARU IS FREE!!!! And Artiom Loskutov is Free as well!!!

More precisely, he is out of the prison! But still in home arrest! According to a Moldovan newspaper his detention was changed to a 30 days home arrest.
Anyways, it is a big step forward!
Thank you you all the readers and contributors to this blog! Thank yo for expressing yr solidarity with Anatol Matasaru!

But just before his liberation Anatol had to go through a tormenting experience. As soon as the judge said he is free to go, 4 men dressed in civil clothing arrested him again. It turned out that they were policeman, and that they have received orders to take him to the prosecutor's office. They did not inform his relatives or show any official papers regarding this order. Later, today, Anatol was escorted home. He is home and safe.
Here is a video from the event done by the internet television JurnalTV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFv82OM5EI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F
The woman who is shouting is his wife.

About the case of Russian artist Artiom Loskutov see here: http://kissmybabushka.com/

Who awaits Anatol Matasaru everytime he goes to court and why?

After every trial, where Anatol Matasaru and other political prisoners from Chisinau try to obtain the freedom, to escape the inhuman, degrading and humiliating detention he is awaited near the court. By whom? There are some persons, dressed in civilian clothes, with a car registered in Transdniestria. They remain until the court decision is taken, and leave in a hurry after that, because Matasaru remains under the custody of police.

In the images below, you see them driving their car, and behaving like they do not want to be filmed. Are they hiding something?

Cine il asteapta pe Matasaru si de ce?
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Matasaru is still in prison, and according to the most recent decision, he will remain there until the 7th of July.