hunger strike

Hundreds of employees from Oltenia Energy Complex (CEO) quarries refused to go to work for the third day, requesting wage raises and other benefits which were not included in the institution’s recently announced budget.

Romanian Chamber of Deputies Speaker Roberta Anastase said Tuesday debates to adopt the country’s lustration law will be held on April 13 when all amendments to the draft law will be analyzed.

The head of "21 Decembrie 1989” association, Teodor Maries, went on hunger strike Tuesday, in front of presidential Cotroceni palace, urging Romanian President Traian Basescu to intervene so that all files of the anti-communist Revolution in December 1989 and miners’ riots in 1990 are declassified.

Romanian foreign affairs minister Adrian Cioroianu announced, Friday, that he presented his honorary resignation, as a result of the Crulic case.

The Romanian Embassy in Warsaw had not been notified by Polish authorities that Claudiu Crulic refused to eat in prison, while the prison warden said Crulic was not incarcerated for the first time in Poland.

The spokesman of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), Cristian Diaconescu, said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should take responsibility for the Crulic case, involving the death of a Romanian citizen who went on hunger strike protesting against his alleged abusive arrest in Warsaw.

Romania’s research union leader Radu Minea went on hunger strike Monday in front of the president’s office building demanding the independence of the research sector, a separate budget for research and the revision of all laws in the sector passed since 2005.