Efforts to bring to justice communist-era figures accused of wrongdoing given large boost as prison commander’s appeal dismissedIn the first case of its kind since the end of the communist era in Romania,an appeals court in Bucharest has upheld a jail sentence against a prison commander convicted of crimes against humanity for the death of 12 political prisoners more than 50 years ago.
Alexandru Visinescu, 90, and was sentenced to 20 years in jail last last July after being found guilty of running “a regime of extermination” at the jail external the small town of Râmnicu Sărat,90 miles east of the capital, from 1956 to 1963. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com