At the National Institute of Justice was launched today, November 6, 2019, the Report on monitoring the selectivity of criminal justice. The event took place within the round table "The challenges of selective justice in the Republic of Moldova: findings, ideas and solutions" which brought together representatives of the justice sector and public authorities, as well as representatives of civil society and the media.
In the opening, Diana Scobioala, Director of the National Institute of Justice, mentioned the following: “Beyond the proportional statistics and the style at times publicistic, the study presents a valuable material for our training methodology based on process simulations that we have recently implemented at the NIJ. It is a material that will serve as an inspiration for both trainers when developing the respective scenarios and for the trainees to be inspired in the training process."
At the round table spoke Gina Lentine, Senior Program Officer for Europe and Eurasia, Freedom House, Kathleen Szpila, Director INL/EA, Department of State, Veronica Mihailov-Moraru, State Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Stela Pavlov, Project Coordinator, Lawyers for Human Rights, and Marc Behrendt, Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia, Freedom House.
The authors of the report, Mariana Rata, journalist, and Cristina Tarna, anti-corruption expert, have presented as a whole the content of the paper that underlines the results of the monitoring and documentation efforts of the selective justice cases in the Republic of Moldova. The study was conducted from a double perspective: legal and journalistic, with the purpose of establishing the specific characteristics to the phenomenon of "selective justice". In this respect, according to a methodology, criminal cases of resonance were monitored, sensitive from the political and public interest perspective, which were either at the instrumentation stage or at the court examination stage. The monitoring period lasted from February to July 2019.
The event was organized within the project "Mobilizing the civil society to support judicial integrity in the Republic of Moldova", implemented by Freedom House with the support of the US State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
