Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca said that he is satisfied with how the remand center of the General Police Commissariat in Chisinau was repaired. After a visit to the isolator on Friday, Rosca said that no detainee complained about the detention conditions, Info-Prim Neo reports. “I ascertained with satisfaction that all the cells now have water and all the other basic necessities,” he stated, saying that he is also satisfied with the alimentation in the center. He stressed that he spoke with men and women and with two minor detainees. “None of them complained”. Rosca urged officials of the Commissariat to continue to fulfill their duties unconditionally so as to avoid cases of misuse of power, inhuman treatment and psychological pressure on those that are in detention. “There should be no facts that the European Court of Human Rights could use to condemn Moldova and that the mass media and the people that come into contact with the police could criticize,” Iurie Rosca said. Asked by Info-Prim Neo, the executive director of the Resource Center for Human Rights (CreDO) Sergiu Ostaf, who is a member of the Torture Prevention Mechanism, expressed a different opinion. He said that the detention conditions in the center are not so good as the air is wet and is harmful, the light is insufficient, artificial and with a low capacity, while the medical services are of a poor quality because there is only a doctor’s assistant that cannot provide appropriate assistance to the detainees. “When the penitentiary is full, there is no ventilation and the air is not at all fresh,” Ostaf said, adding that he paid the last visit to the remand center a month and a half ago. He questioned the fact that the police officers observe the rights of the detainees. According to him, the General Police Commissariat is most often mentioned as a place of frequent maltreatment of the detainees. The executive director of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Teodor Carnat said that the remand center was indeed repaired after the April 7 events. “My colleagues that vested the center recently saw better conditions as there is drinking water and sanitary equipment,” Carnat said. He stressed yet that most of the complaints filed by those detained after April 7 referred not to the sanitary conditions, but more to the fact that by 14-15 persons were held in a cell with a capacity of 2-3 persons. Asked to comment on Rosca’s assertions about the observance of prisoners’ rights, Teodor Carnat said that the authorities try to hush up the cases of police torture and maltreatment during the electoral campaign. In another connection, Iurie Rosca called on the employees of the General Police Commissariat and of the local police departments to improve the relations with the mass media and try to directly speak to representatives of media outlets, not only through the press services, so as to ensure a quick contact with the people. Asked by Info-Prim Neo’s reporter to provide information about the repair works in the remand center, General Commissioner Vladimir Botnari said such information should be offered by the press service of the Ministry of the Interior.