En 2013, en Roumanie, quatorze ouvrages et articles scientifiques ont été publiés par des détenus. En 2014, ce chiffre est passé à 89. En 2015, à 338… Un intérêt spontané pour la science dans les prisons roumaines ? Plutôt un filon pour ceux qui ont du mal à supporter leur séjour derrière les barreaux : depuis 2013, ···

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s crackdown on corruption and fraud in recent years has created a sudden and unexpected literary boom, as prisoners publish hundreds of non-fiction books on subjects as varied as soccer, real estate, God and gemstones. It’s quite a feat for inmates with no access to books or the Internet, often without ···

The hearing only lasted an hour. The defendant was a frail old man in a hat. The atmosphere was subdued, the legal procedure perfunctory. But in a packed courtroom in Bucharest, Romania finally took steps on Wednesday to come to terms with the brutality of its communist past. Twenty-five years after the collapse of the ···

The European Commission and Romania’s civil society are critical of a series of amendments to the Criminal Law that decriminalise political corruption and free high-ranking officials from possible corruption charges. On December 10th, Romanian lawmakers secretly passed a series of amendments that take lawmakers, the president of the country and the liberal professions, such as ···

BUCHAREST, Romania — Remembered as a brutal sadist by inmates who managed to survive the prisons he once ran, Alexandru Visinescu bubbles with violent fury. “Get away from my door, or do you want me to get a stick and beat you?” the 88-year-old former prison commander screamed recently when a reporter called at his ···