Andrei Ivanţoc

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Andrei Ivanţoc (born 1961) is a Moldovan politician who was among the four leaders (the Ilie Ilaşcu group) of the Tiraspol branch of the pro-Romanian Christian-Democratic People's Party of Moldova who were accused of terrorism by Transnistria. He was arrested on 2 June 1992 and will remain imprisoned until 2008 unless he obtains an early release.

On 9 December 1993, the Supreme Court of Transnistria found him guilty of murdering a representative of the State with the aim of spreading terror, unauthorised use and theft of ammunition or explosives, and assault. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The trials in 1993 were considered by human rights groups to be unfair as the accused were allegedly tortured and forced to sign imaginary confessions. Ivanţoc as well as the others were pro-Romanian unionists in opposition to the separatist government in Tiraspol. Lately the OSCE and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg have ruled that Moldova and Russia should end his detention as well as the detention of the other inmates still held by the Trasnistrian government.

He became a Romanian citizen in 2001 while in prison, and in March 2005, he was proposed by the Social Liberal Party as a candidate for the position of President of Moldova. On 27 February 2006, Ivanţoc started a hunger strike in protest against the "abusive, inhuman and degrading treatment" he said he was receiving from the Transnistrian authorities.