Of the 3,034 criminal complaints of police abuse lodged between 2012 and 2014, only 14 reached the courts.
Civicus Monitor
The responses of two state oversight committees laid bare the lack of oversight that exists over the actions of national intelligence services.
Up to 70% of ECtHR cases against Romania concern detention conditions, claims the only Romanian justice of the Court.
After a fire at a nightclub in Bucharest leaves dozens dead, 70,000 people take to the streets of cities across Romania to protest against the corruption of political elites.
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On 15th September 2020, the Romanian government extended the state of alert for 30 days due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Iulia Motoc, the Romanian judge for the ECtHR, says that 60-70% of the cases against Romania that reach the Court concern detention conditions. Next in the top are the cases related to unjustified preventive arrests.
The beating of a 19-year-old woman by Romanian police has led to yet another judgment against the country by the European Court of Human Rights, which condemned Romania for improperly investigating the incident.
The Romanian Parliament is discussing a new law on cybersecurity. If adopted in its current form, the law will enable the Secret Services to have free access to all computers in Romania, without needing a warrant...
Since 2010, no Romanian magistrate has ever paid for the mistakes he or she made in decisions that led to European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments against the state. That is because Romania's statute of...
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