Moldova *UPDATES 2*

• Police arrested a few hundred people, including journalists bur refuses to made their name public. As a result their relatives do not know who is arrested and where they are. Apparently lawyers also do not have access to many of the arrested people, and they have not been given the right to one phone-call.
• An update on today from Chisinau: “No protests today.  However, there have been lots arrests, principally of young people.  Police are going to homes, asking for student lists at university. Procedures are apparently not respected – no arrest warrants, no special treatment for juveniles, not clear if distinctions are made between protestors and spectators.  Families and lawyers do not have access to people who’ve been arrested.  They are told by the police that no such person is in custody.  Even the ombudsman has been denied access.
• Many of the principal members of civil society have drafted a declaration, to be published today.  It contains the following elements: Information on the situation on the ground; Asks authorities to keep within the law, to respect freedom of movement and others rights, and refrain from inflammatory acts; Makes public a partial list of people who’ve been arrested.
• Moldovan Ombudsman suspects police is torturing arrested children.

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