Cazul Tanacu: necesitatea amendării legii penale cu privire la tortură, tratamente inumane sau degradante
The Tanacu case: the importance of amending the criminal law to protect citizens from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment

Summary/Abstract: The study looks at the attitude of the public opinion towards the death of Irina Cornici, a young woman murdered by being exposed to inhuman treatments during an exorcism held on the premises of the Holy Trinity Monastery in the village of Tanacu; at the failure of the system protecting persons with mental disabilities in the same case; and at the nature of the charges brought against the perpetrators of the crime. The article argues that exorcism, a practice current in Romanian monasteries and churches, must be strictly monitored by state agencies. It further suggests that it is imperative to amend the Criminal Code so as to define the brutal manner in which persons with mental disabilities are treated during such religious rituals as crimes in the class of degrading treatment, ill treatment or torture.

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