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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 ...

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 ...

Update4: Over 100,000 protesters have gathered in Bucharest on Friday, in Victoriei Square for the Diaspora rally. All streets around the Government building have been blocked by the police force. The first incidents began around 4 p.m. and since then ...

Thousands of people took to the streets again on Wednesday evening in Bucharest and other cities in Romania to shout in rage against the latest amendments the Parliament had operated on the criminal codes. Digi24 reported there were over 4,500 ...

The Bucharest municipality’s decision to hold a Christmas fair-for the first time-in Victoriei Square (where anti-corruption protests had been staged) prompted a dispute between the City Hall’s employees who had come to set up their equipment and to scaffold the ...

Turkish authorities detained 457 “foreign terrorist fighters” in the first six months of this year, while they were heading to Syria to fight. Among them there is also a Romanian, sources within the Turkish army told Anadolu Turkish agency. The ...