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Council of Europe human rights commissioner Muiznieks is paying an official visit to Romania

Romanian Justice Minister Robert Cazanciuc on Thursday met the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks, who is paying an official visit to Romania. Nils Muiznieks showed interest in the Romanian laws on the underage youths, as well as their prosecution and detention regime, the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM) chief Adrian Bordea said on Thursday.

'He sought to find out about human rights violations in Romania and particularly the law on the minors and the prosecution of minors, be it the civil or criminal side of the law. He was interested in the underage youths' detention regime, since with the modification of the laws relating the criminal law and the criminal procedure also modified was the minors' detention regime', Bordea said after meeting the commissioner.

He said the talks had focused less on the ethnic Roma and more on Romania's cases at the European Court of Human Rights.

'I explained him we are in a transition as regards the minors' rights, about the existence of an underage specialist court in Brasov and the specialist panels of judges at the other courts. As regards the detention regime, there is a re-education centre for underage youths in Bacau and Gaesti', the judge stressed.

The CSM chief said he had explained the commissioner that the Romanian detention regime in general had already been the subject of claims at the ECHR, for which the country was sentenced.

'You've seen that scoreboard where Romania, unfortunately, lags at the bottom by funding the justice system and I think this thing will draw the Government's attention to set the size of the budget structure in a different manner.... It was more of a discussion in principle, a briefing discussion', Bordea said.

 

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