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The General Prosecutor of Moldova, Alexandr Stoianoglu, on Wednesday said charges against the former head of the intelligence service, SIS, Vasile Botnari, had been sent to court for the involuntary deportation in 2018 of seven Turkish teachers to Turkey, where they were jailed for alleged links to exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen.

The anti-terrorism division of the Moldovan Secret Services, SIS, and the Border Police announced on Monday that they have detained a 28-year-old citizen of Tajikistan who is wanted internationally for his alleged affiliation with militant group Islamic State.

The Tajik citizen was caught while seeking to leave Moldova using a fake Ukrainian passport.

Human rights organisations in Moldova, the Center for Legal Resources of Moldova and Promo-LEX human rights association, on Thursday issued a joint declaration, protesting over the rights violations of seven detained Turkish nationals who it is suspected will be deported to Turkey.

Sofia. As of today, Bulgaria will refuse entry/stay in its territory to third-country nationals in respect of whom an alert for refusal of entry or stay has been issued in the Schengen Information System (SIS), said the Ministry of Interior press office.