Programme. Each court appointed a contact person who was tasked with preparing and periodically providing the Trial Monitoring Programme staff with a list of cases scheduled for trial. Monitors attended hearings according to this schedule. A total of 20 monitors in Chişinău were coordinated by the Programme’s National Coordinator and Senior Assistant. In the Southeast, the Programme assigned specific monitors to specific courts. There were a total of six monitors in the Southeast, two in each court. The pair monitoring the Căuşeni District Court also monitored hearings at the Bender Court of Appeals, located in the city of Căuşeni. 1.6. Methodology The Trial Monitoring Programme focused on the following types of criminal cases: trafficking in human beings, trafficking in arms, domestic violence, crimes against the administration of justice, corruption and other crimes committed by public officials. Table 1: Types of criminal cases monitored Category of crimes monitored and related articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova Trafficking in persons, pimping: Art. 165. Trafficking in human beings Art. 206. Trafficking in children Art. 207. Illegally taking children out of the country Art. 220. Pimping Trafficking in arms: Art. 248, para. 3. Smuggling weapons, explosives, ammunition Domestic violence: Art. 145. Deliberate murder Art. 150. Inducement to commit suicide Art. 151. Deliberate grievous bodily harm or damage to health Art. 152. Deliberate average bodily harm or damage to health Art. 153. Minor bodily harm or damage to health Art. 154. Deliberate maltreatment or other acts of violence Art. 155. Threatening murder or to inflict grievous bodily harm or damage to health Art. 156. Deliberate grievous or average bodily harm or damage to health inflicted in a “state of affect“ (temporary insanity) Art. 157. Grievous or average bodily harm or damage to health caused by imprudence Crimes against the Art. 303. Interference in the enforcement of justice and in criminal administration of justice: prosecution Art. 306. Knowingly holding an innocent person criminally liable Art. 307. The passing of an illegal sentence, decree, conclusion or decision Art. 308. Illegal detention or arrest Art. 309. Coercion to make statements Art. 309/1. Torture Art. 310. Falsification of evidence Art. 312. Making false statements, conclusions or incorrect translation 17