What the record says

Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 4

Country / period

Romania, 1968–1989

Mechanism

Securitate-directed psychiatric confinement; Decree 313 of 14 Oct 1980 on "dangerous psychiatric patients"

What is documented

Worker Vasile Paraschiv quit the Party publicly in 1968, wrote to the Central Committee in 1971 and tried to found a free trade union; confined to psychiatric hospitals (1978 onward) and forcibly injected with neuroleptics without psychiatric symptoms; psychiatrist Ion Vianu, after emigrating in 1977, joined the Geneva Initiative and described the "Ceaușescu doctrine" that only a madman could imagine socialism perishing, with healthy people confined for months or years, not only around state visits; Poiana Mare hospital notorious for dissident detention

Finding or status

Securitate files at CNSAS; Presidential Commission (Tismăneanu) report 2006 names Paraschiv's 1978 case as the first proven in the West; US State Department cables (Reagan Library) record dissidents confined for political and religious beliefs; Amnesty reports (UK National Archives file) (Radio Romania International; Hotnews, Andrei Ursu on Vianu (Romanian); Evenimentul Zilei (Romanian); Reagan Library cables)

Contrary evidence / limits

Prosecutors declined to charge Paraschiv's torturers (IICCR complaint 2010); no criminal finding

Label

VERIFIED (secondary, local-language)