2009-04-29 19:21:04 -

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - Two people who took part in violent postelection riots in Moldova are missing, opposition politicians said Wednesday, adding that more than 300 people were detained and mistreated.
Anti-government protesters stormed the parliament and president's offices April 7, claiming parliamentary elections won by the Communists were rigged. Two people died and more than 90 were injured.
Authorities officially arrested 200 after the protests and 20 were still being held.
But Chisinau city hall, which is run by the opposition, claimed the total of detained people was 322.
Sergiu Donici, a 19-year-old student, and Alexandru Galinschi, 25, went missing during protests, said Alexandra Motpan, director of city hall's public administration department. They were not included among the arrested or detained people.
Galinschi's mother said her son went to an Internet cafe two days after the riots and did not return. Donici, a journalism student, disappeared hours after the April 7 riots, Motpan said.
Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, who is also deputy head of the opposition Liberal Party, called for people to come forward with information about the missing men.
Rights groups claim that police detained young people in schools, on public transportation and on the streets in the days following the riots. They claimed some of the people detained and arrested were beaten in custody.
The Interior Ministry has declined to comment.
European Parliament lawmaker Marianne Mikko said Wednesday there were «horrible acts of violence» committed by police against protesters.
French European Parliament lawmaker Marie-Anne Isler Beguin said that if young protesters had been mistreated in France like they had in Moldova «the next day the Interior Minister would have had been fired. It would have been normal for this to have happened in Moldova too,» she told reporters in Chisinau.

Mikko heads the European Parliament's Commission on Cooperation with Moldova and said she's been monitoring the situation in the country for five years.
The Communists won the elections with about 50 percent of the vote in the former Soviet republic of 4.1 million.