Judges at Europe's rights court found Romania repeatedly bungled its investigation of a protester’s 1989 beating, saying more ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

Catalin Ranco Pitu, the former head of Romania's Military Prosecutor's Office has told DW that the sonic weapon allegedly used during the massive protest in Belgrade on March 15 was similar to the one ...

A 66-year-old Romanian woman died last month after setting herself on fire in a mountain resort near the central city of Brasov, Romanian media reported on June 9. Ileana Negru, whose 12-year-old son, ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...