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The Romanian data protection authority has sent questions to journalists who authored an article on a corruption case, and has asked for information which could reveal the article’s sources.
Victor Stanciu, a 60-year-old man, was taken from his home by two police officers to Police Station no. 19 in Bucharest, where he was beaten, allegedly for refusing to show his ID.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has given the Romanian state six months to present a plan to address deteriorating conditions and overcrowding and its prisons. The ECtHR also fined Romania 17,850 euros in...
Victor Ponta’s government, in power for over three years in Romania, resigned last Wednesday. The prime minister’s resignation comes amid the most widespread protests in the past 25 years in Romania. More than 25,000...
More than two decades after lives were lost to see freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, protesters in Romania are forced to fight for it again, this time in front of the courts, making use of lawyerly tricks and procedural flaws.
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The Council of Europe's anti-torture delegation has published the report of its summer visit to Romania. Its findings: prisons remain overcrowded, unsanitary, and without natural light or ventilation.
In a Romanian prison, access to secondary education was refused for an inmate based on cost arguments. Read the takeaways of the related ECHR case about guaranteeing access to education for people in the penitentiary system.
The Romanian government wants to force NGOs to publish data on all their beneficiaries, just as banks and gambling companies are forced to declare suspicious transactions. Non-compliant NGOs will be shut down.
Aurel Radulescu complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR ) for the overcrowding and the lack of hygiene of Romanian prisons and received a 6,000 euros compensation.
In the era of biometrics, where computer facial recognition is possible even for those wearing a burka, Romanian police still get tripped up by a little facial hair.
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