A/HRC/16/53/Add.1 3. (a) Communication sent on 17 August 2010 jointly with the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment or belief Allegations transmitted to the Government 355. The Special Rapporteurs brought to the attention of the Government information regarding Mr. Grigori Djoltaili, a member of the Church of Evangelical Christians of Baptists in Tvarditsa village, Taraclia County, Republic of Moldova. 356. According to the information received, Mr. Grigori Djoltaili has in previous years and most recently been discriminated against and physically assaulted by members of the majority Orthodox community in his village of Tvarditsa in Taraclia County. Reportedly the head of the local school did not allow him to complete his studies because Mr. Djoltaili’s parents are also members of the Church of Evangelical Christians of Baptists. Mr. Djoltaili ceased studies with an incomplete secondary education in 1991. In 1994, members of the Orthodox community of St. Pareschiva Church in the Tvarditsa village, Taraclia County, broke the gates of his house and entered his house without his permission and tried to kill his mother and father. His father was 60 years old at the time and his mother was 58. During the same events, the members of the Orthodox community also tried to assault him, but failed. In 1994, Mr. Djoltaili submitted a complaint concerning these events to the prosecutor’s office in Chadirlunga, but no action followed. Since then, Mr. Djoltaili has reportedly lived in extreme poverty, suffering also from malnutrition, among other things because of the marginal position to which he has been forced as a result of his minority religious affiliation. 357. On 12 July 2010, between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., Mr. Djoltaili was approached in the Tvarditsa village by Mr. A. who reportedly works for the Christian Orthodox St. Pareschiva Church. Mr. A. used threatening words and degrading terms and threatened to beat Mr. Djoltaili. There was a police car nearby, with a person in civil clothes inside. These persons were witness to the threats, however, they did not intervene but rather drove away. 358. Two days later, at a local Internet café, the Mr. A. reportedly told other individuals that he and the police officer were planning to beat Mr. Djoltaili. On 15 July 2010, when Mr. Djoltaili left an Internet café, some persons followed him and used insulting phrases about his faith in Jesus Christ and his affiliation with the Baptist Church. They threatened that they would beat him harshly and would throw him into the local canal. 359. Approximately one hour later on 15 July 2010, a person named Mr. I. A. allegedly attacked Mr. Djoltaili physically. This assault was stopped as a result of the intervention of a third party. On the same night, while Mr. Djoltaili was going home, a car stopped nearby. Several people got out of the car and ordered him to approach. Mr. Djoltaili refused and began to flee down a lighted path. 360. On 20 July 2010, Mr. Djoltaili submitted a complaint to the prosecutor in Taraclia town. Following this complaint, the threats and attacks against him increased. Several days after submitting this complaint, and apparently as a result of the complaint, Mr. I. A. threatened to kill him. In addition, the local police officer required Mr. Djoltaili to go to the police station and put pressure on him to write another communication to the prosecutor, in which he would withdraw his complaint. Mr. Djoltaili regularly received calls from unknown telephone numbers with similar pressure and threats to withdraw his complaint. A neighbour also informed Mr. Djoltaili that unknown persons came looking for him while he was not at home. 67