HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN ROMANIA
THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ROMANIAN HELSINKI COMMITTEE (APADOR-CH)
2000 REPORT

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION
The Penal Code
The access to information
The Draft Bill on the Security of State and Job-Related Secret Information

POLICE – GENERAL REMARKS AND INDIVIDUAL CASES
A. Maintaining the militarisation and centralisation
B. Issues of permanent concern for APADOR-CH
1. The use of fire weapons by police officers
2. The right to defence
3. The access to police lockups
4. Individual cases investigated by APADOR-CH in the year 2000
Mugurel Soare (Bucharest)
Teodor-Cicerone Nartea (Bucharest)
Silviu Rosioru (Buzau)
Dumitru Matei (Pitesti)
5. Old cases still unsolved
Nicolae Cazacu, commune of Poiana Lacului, Arges county
Vili Rupa, Hunedoara
Nicu Olteanu (Bucharest)
Aurel Uluiteanu (Barcanesti, Ialomita county)

ASPECTS FROM PENITENTIARIES
The main aspects resulting from the visits to penitentiaries
1. Conditions of detention
Overcrowding
Feeding the detainees
Medical assistance
Daily exercise
2. Disciplinary punishments
3. The right to correspondence
4. Complaints regarding statutory offences committed by certain officers
5. Cultural and educational activities
6. About the situation of minors and youth
7. Other aspects

NATIONAL MINORITIES
1. Ordinance on preventing and sanctioning all forms of discrimination (OG 137/2000)
2. The Tartar minority
3. The depreciation of the Department for the Protection of National Minorities
4. New ethnic and cultural communities
The case of the Religious Organisation “Jehovah’s Witnesses”

OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Access to public information and freedom of expression
2. The Royaumont project
3. The programme on the non-profit sector legislation
4. The project on the legal status of women
5. Legal assistance
6. Collaboration with other non-governmental organisations

CONCLUSIONS

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