The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) informed the Government of Moldova about a new case concerning the use of torture in police commissariats. The plaintiffs are two men from Chisinau, who complained to the ECHR that they were ill-treated in the police commissariat of Chisinau’s Centru district, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a communiqué from Promo-LEX Association, in April 2008 the plaintiffs were arrested by the police, being accused of putting up resistance. The men said each of them was maltreated with the aim of extracting self-incriminatory statements from them, as if they used violence against policemen inside a café. The plaintiffs said they were hit with different objects, including nightsticks. After a series of trials in the national courts, in April 2010 the plaintiffs filed an application to the ECHR. At the request of the ombudsperson, the plaintiffs were visited by doctors of the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims “Memoria” and benefited afterward from rehabilitation assistance from the Center. Then plaintiffs are represented in the ECHR by lawyer Alexandru Postica, program director at Promo-LEX.