October 2017 - Friends of Alexander Adamescu

Eight reasons Alexander Adamescu will not get a fair trial in Romania

26th October 2017

In the UK we take justice for granted, forgetting that in many parts of the world justice systems do not measure up to our own. When someone is accused of a crime, we trust that the British justice system will cautiously protect rights and carefully examine evidence and witnesses to established guilt or innocence. Not…

Dan Adamescu’s death

24th October 2017

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Dan Adamescu’s death followed his incarceration in some of the worst prison conditions in the world and the refusal of medical treatment by the Romanian authorities. Dan Adamescu died on January 24th, 2017, at the age of 68. It is believed that he died of blood poisoning, but the Romanian authorities continue to refuse to…

Dan Adamescu’s trial

24th October 2017

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Dan Adamescu’s trial was short and did not meet the standards of a fair trial expected in liberal democracies. The trial followed a series of explicitly political public pronouncements which exposed the political motivations behind the accusations against him. On May 24th, 2014, then Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta publicly declared Dan Adamescu guilty…

Who was Dan Adamescu?

24th October 2017

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Dan Adamescu was a Romanian businessman who was the founder of The Nova Group, which includes what was once Romania’s largest insurance provider, Astra Asigurari, and the Romania Libera newspaper. Adamescu was born on September 20th, 1948 in Vaideeni, Vâlcea County, Romania. He graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and started his career in the still-communist…