LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of December 8, 1992 No. 1225-XII

About recovery of victims of political repressions

Since November 7, 1917 in the territory of the present Republic of Moldova, in the beginning in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and since June 28, 1940 and in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, state bodies in the period of totalitarian regime make number of mass political repressions.

In the course of hearing of cases in the period of totalitarian regime by the state administrative, judicial and extrajudicial bodies (VChK, GPU of OGPU, People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, MGB, KGB, prosecutor's office and their board, "two", "three", "special meetings", other bodies with similar functions) roughly violated the rights and freedoms of citizens.

Parliament, resolutely condemning the political repressions made by the state administrative, judicial and extrajudicial bodies in the period of totalitarian regime and violation of rules of law and morals by them, adopts this law for the purpose of recovery of victims of repressions, their recovery in the political, social and civil laws, compensations of the caused material damage, and also elimination of other effects of arbitrary behavior of totalitarian regime by it.

Chapter I General provisions

Article 1. Concept of political repression

The deprivation of people of life, enforcement powers applied by the state to citizens for political, national, religious or social motives, in the form of imprisonment, the reference, dispatch, the direction for forced labor in the conditions of restriction of freedom, expulsion from the country and deprivation of nationality, expropriation, the forced placement to mental health facilities, in other forms of restriction of the rights and freedoms of persons recognized socially dangerous to the state or political regime, performed based on decisions of the state administrative, judicial and extrajudicial bodies are considered as political repression.

Article 2. Victims of political repressions

As the victims of political repressions are considered:

persons, victims of the political repressions specified in Article 1;

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