LAW & CRIME

Romanian authorities must conduct prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations by civilian authorities into the allegations of unnecessary and excessive use of force by the gendarmerie against participants of a protest in Bucharest on 10 August, and bring all those ...

The woman gendarme who has been beaten by several instigators during the Diaspora rally on August 10 will be discharged from hospital today, as medical tests that she underwent on Monday showed no major issues had been  identified. „She is ...

Military prosecutors have registered 63 criminal complaints filed by protesters against the riot police representatives so far. The gendarmes are accused of of abusive intervention during the Diaspora rally on August 10, which left over 400 injured. Two gendarmes were ...

33 of those over 400 people injured following the riot police’s intervention in force during the Diaspora rally on Friday have file criminal complaints against the Gendarmerie. Military prosecutors are probing if the gendarmes who intervened during the protest are ...

Four foreign citizens, who arrived by mistake in Victoriei Square during the rally against the Government Friday night, were taken out of their car and were beaten by the gendarmes, capital.ro informs. Regarding the incident in which four Israeli tourists ...

Romania 100 Platform, together with other 16 civic organizations have pressed charges to the Prosecutor’s Office against Interior Minister Carmen Dan, and against Bucharest Prefect, Speranta Cliseru, asking prosecutors to start criminal investigations against the two officials over the violent ...

European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Vera Jourova, has expressed concern about the amendments to the laws of justice in a statement to ‘Die Welt’. She pointed out that the amendments put at risk the independence of judges ...

Following the hearings after the violence in Victoriei Square Friday night, the prosecutors have decided, Saturday night, to remand two men, charging them with outrage and the disturbing of public order. They are to be sent to court for preventive ...

The Prosecutor’s Office upon the High Court of Cassation and Justice announced on Saturday that military prosecutors have been notified ex officio and opened a criminal file on the intervention in force of the gendarmes during the Diaspora rally in ...

Ombudsman has been notified ex officio on Friday over the case of a woman found dead in the courtyard of „Al. Obregia” Mental Hospital in Bucharest. The Ombudsman will probe if the Constitution has been violated, namely articles 22, 34 ...