Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
5
Cases Prosecuted
5
Cases Recorded by Police
5
Explanation to the total figures recorded
All the cases reported here relate to "extremist crimes" motivated by bias, related to participation in armed conflict, recruitment of others to participate in an armed conflict, and/or undermining the constitutional system.
NPC
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report
Parliament passed amendments to Moldova's Criminal Code which will alter the existing hate crime provisions in the first reading. The bill expected to pass into law in 2017.
IGO
Organization Name
Bias Motivation
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report
In its "Concluding observations on the combined tenth and eleventh periodic reports of Moldova," the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed concern about the lack of hate crime legislation and recommended that the investigation and prosecution of all hate crimes is ensured, as well as that date are provided on the numbers of cases.
ODIHR Recommendations
ODIHR observes that the law enforcement agencies of Moldova have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.