Romania’s rights record attacked
NZPA-Reuter Paris Romania’s human-rights record has come under fierce attack at a 35nation conference amid reports that one of its best-known dissidents had been beaten by security police. Romania, already under fire because of its plan to destroy thousands of ethnic Hungarian villages, faced savage criticism from Canada, France, Switzerland, Spain and Iceland at the opening session of the humanrights conference. A spokesman for the League of Human Rights in Romania told Reuters that the dissident writer, Doina Cornea, had recently been badly beaten for violating a housearrest order.
A spokesman, Dino Zansirescu, said Ms Cornea required 17 stitches after the beating, which took place on the same day that a Belgian politician had tried to visit her. Mr Cornea and her sick husband live in the northern town of Cluj. Police also beat up the Belgian politician, Gerard Deprez, and a colleague, prompting an outraged protest from the Belgian Government. Ms Cornea is a signatory of an open letter to President Nicolae Ceausescu criticising his authoritarian policies.
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