Romania: Dissidents in Romania

A file containing documents relating to dissidence in Romania. Subjects covered in the file include coal miners sent to labour camps after staging strikes; a campaign against Hungarian-language schools and churches; and the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes, directed against ethnic and religious minorities. Other subjects discussed in the file include the involvement of Amnesty International in the cases of many Romanian detainees; the detention of members of the S.L.O.M.R. free trade union; calls on the British government to intervene on behalf of Romanian citizens; and a campaign by the Romanian government's Department of Cults against supporters of the Christian Committee for the Defence of Religious Freedom and Conscience. Documents in the file include Amnesty International reports on ethnic Hungarian prisoners of conscience, on the political abuse of psychiatry, on the imprisonment of "neo-Protestant" believers, on the legal basis for imprisonment in Romania, and on conditions in a notorious detention centre.