The National Institute of Justice and the Council of Europe Office in Chisinau are organizing online the summer school for trainers on the right to liberty and security. The event takes place between July 13-15, 2020, in the context of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
In the opening session spoke William Massolin, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Chisinau, Diana Scobioala, Director of the National Institute of Justice, Maria Oreshkina, Project Coordinator in the Eastern Partnership and Russian Federation of the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, and Mona Popescu-Boulin, Deputy Prosecutor, Bordeaux Prosecutor's Office, France, International Consultant to the Council of Europe. The Director of the NIJ highlighted the importance of a mixed group of participants and expressed her confidence that during three days there will be a productive exchange of views, also by providing the expertise of French guests.
The summer school will exclusively address the issues of applying the key standards of the European Convention on Human Rights on the right to liberty and security in the limited context of criminal proceedings in the Republic of Moldova. Participants - 25 legal practitioners from prosecutors, judges and lawyers - will be acquainted with the main findings of the Report on the application of pre-trial detention in the Republic of Moldova (2020) and will be familiarized with examples of pre-trial detention practices from a comparative perspective.
The training of trainers course will cover three study modules that will focus on legal motivation, comparative perspective, evidence, argumentation and alternative measures to pre-trial detention. These were distributed by day and consist of at least four training sessions that will be conducted through the "peer-to-peer" training model.
The trainers of the sessions are Mona Popescu-Boulin, Deputy Prosecutor, Bordeaux Prosecutor's Office, France, International Consultant to the Council of Europe; Charles Prats, Vice-President of the Paris Tribunal, Judge of Rights and Freedoms, International Consultant to the Council of Europe; Lilian Apostol, National Consultant to the Council of Europe; Oleg Rotari, Governmental Agent of the Republic of Moldova before the ECtHR; Dumitru Obada, NIJ trainer, prosecutor; and Ion Chirtoaca, NIJ trainer, judge.
The summer school is organized by the National Institute of Justice in partnership with the Council of Europe under the program "Promoting a criminal justice system based on respect for human rights in the Republic of Moldova" funded by the Government of Norway.
