27 years after the miners’ riot in the summer of 1990, the prosecutors of the Military Prosecutor's Office have decided to send the file to court. Thus, the file was sent to the High Court for Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court)…

The military prosecutors from the prosecutor of the Supreme Court have indicted on Friday, in the miners’ riot file, former President Ion Iliescu, former Prime Minister Petre Roman, former director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)…

26 years after the miners’ riot during June 13-15, 1990, when the Jiului Valley miners led by Miron Cozma came to Bucharest upon the then President Ion Iliescu’s call, ‘Adevarul’ newspaper says the leader of the Jiu Valley miners had been a…

Emil Cico Dumitrescu has been indicted in the miners’ riot file for crimes against humanity. Dumitrescu told the press while leaving the Prosecutor’s Office upon the Supreme Court that he has been informed he is suspect in the file. He…

The miners' riot file of June 1990 cannot be judged even three years after it had been brought to court. The Supreme Court has decided in a final ruling today that the file must return to the military prosecutors to restore the…

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has notified the General Prosecutor's Office on eight candidates running for Presidency, claiming they had filed signatures that have similarities. Among those candidates referred to the prosecutors there…

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has validated the candidatures of Klaus Iohannis, Dan Barna, Mircea Diaconu and Kelemen Hunor for the presidential election on Sunday, yet it has rejected to register the candidacy of Miron Cozma, arguing…

29 years are marked on Thursday since the bloodiest miners’ riot in Romania that claimed tens of people’s lives, of whom only six were identified. 746 persons were injured. It all started on May 20, 1990 when the then President Ion…

The June 13-15, 1990 ‘Miners’ riot file’, in which former President Ion Iliescu (photo 2), former Prime Minister Petre Roman and former SRI Director Virgil Magureanu have been sued for crimes against humanity, will return to the…

UDMR chairman Kelemen Hunor is skeptical about the PSD's plans to issue an emergency ordinance on amnesty and pardon and says that at this point any discussion on this issue should stop. "Pardon is part of the criminal policy of each…