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Forme de disidentă în România în anii ’70: Paul Goma și mișcarea pentru drepturile omului
Forms of Dissidence in Romania in the ’70: Paul Goma and the Movement for Defending Human Rights

Author(s): Ana-Maria Cătănuş
Subject(s): History of Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political history, Social history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: 70s; Paul Goma; human rights; Romania; dissidence forms;

Summary/Abstract: In Romania, in the last two decades of Communism, there had been few cases of dissidence. One of the dissidents was the writer Paul Goma. He was arrested in 1956, in the context of the Hungarian revolution and sent to prison for two years. In January 1977, he addressed a letter of solidarity to the of Czechoslovakian Charter 77 signatories. The movement for defending human rights in Romania that Paul Goma initiated at the end of the ’70 had been sustained by approximately 200 people, who were demanding the respect oftheir constitutional rights. In April 1977, Paul Goma was arrested and after he was released, he was forced into exile.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2005
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 99-122
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Romanian