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Anti-Hungarian Bill Alarms Romanian Rights Activists
The top See Also links to a thread with various updates on the Romanian Crisis beginning almost a month ago, which chronicled events in the crisis in question - ending with a link detailing growing Romanian-Russian relations. I decided to start a new thread because this details a rather dramatic turn of events regarding the endemic corruption of Romania. It looks to me that Romania is on its way to becoming a pariah state much like Russia, isolated due to the corruption of its government. If you go to the top See Also link you can get a glance/summary of what has been going on since roughly the beginning of February, and also see how it has escalated. This latest turn of events is quite shocking.
Romania's Senate is to discuss a bill that proposes jail terms of six months to three years for people challenging Romania's "constitutional order", prompting civic activists to claim that the ruling Social Democrat Party, PSD, may attempt to limit free speech.
The bill amending the penal code includes one article that says: "Action against people or assets by one of more individuals together, with the clear purpose to change the constitutional order, or to make it harder or prevent the state from exercising its power, is punishable with six months to three years of imprisonment".
"I have to remind everybody that PSD spokesman [Adrian Dobre] said that [anti-corrution] protesters prevented the government for working properly. So be careful. Protesting might soon become a crime,” she said.
Activists say restricting constitutional rights is a step back to dictatorship, however.
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The bill amending the penal code includes one article that says: "Action against people or assets by one of more individuals together, with the clear purpose to change the constitutional order, or to make it harder or prevent the state from exercising its power, is punishable with six months to three years of imprisonment".
"I have to remind everybody that PSD spokesman [Adrian Dobre] said that [anti-corrution] protesters prevented the government for working properly. So be careful. Protesting might soon become a crime,” she said.
Activists say restricting constitutional rights is a step back to dictatorship, however.
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- Romanian PM vows to stay despite anti-government protests
- Romania is becoming the EU's outlaw state
- 'We are in a crisis,' says Romania's President Klaus Iohannis amid mass protests
- Romania's government survives no-confidence vote
- Romania's president Iohannis slams the government for crisis
- Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu refusing to resign despite massive protests in Bucharest
- Amid protests, Romania scraps proposed corruption bill
- Romanian government stands ground as thousands protest in anti-graft backlash
- Sorin Grindeanu defends graft decree despite protests
- President Iohannis demands PM Grindeanu to repeal freshly-adopted ordinance on Criminal Codes
- Romania political crisis | EC President Juncker ‘greatly concerned’ with latest developments
- Romania Debates Disputed Legal Plans After Massive Protests
- Thousands protest plan to pardon prisoners in Romania
The top See Also links to a thread with various updates on the Romanian Crisis beginning almost a month ago, which chronicled events in the crisis in question - ending with a link detailing growing Romanian-Russian relations. I decided to start a new thread because this details a rather dramatic turn of events regarding the endemic corruption of Romania. It looks to me that Romania is on its way to becoming a pariah state much like Russia, isolated due to the corruption of its government. If you go to the top See Also link you can get a glance/summary of what has been going on since roughly the beginning of February, and also see how it has escalated. This latest turn of events is quite shocking.