Romanian Communist-era prison commander gets final 20-year jail sentence

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[quote]The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) ruled a final 20-year jail sentence for Ion Ficior, a former commander of Periprava Communist-era labor camp. Ficior was found guilty of crimes against humanity.
According to the prosecutors, between 1958 and 1963, when Ficior led the Periprava prison, he introduced and coordinated a repressive, abusive, inhumane, and discretionary detention regime against the prisoners. More than 100 political prisoners died in the prison in that period.
According to investigators, the prisoners were isolated from their families and other people, they were held in miserable conditions, in the cold, without food and water. They also lacked medicines and had to work in inhumane conditions.[/quote]
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So why did it take 28 years after the fall of the eastern bloc to do this?

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[QUOTE=RB33;52034390]So why did it take 28 years after the fall of the eastern bloc to do this?[/QUOTE]

He was already in prison for 20 years, this is an extension.

Edit: woops, I'm wrong, it's a different guy thats already in prison. This is why you shouldn't skim articles on the bus :v:

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[QUOTE=RB33;52034390]So why did it take 28 years after the fall of the eastern bloc to do this?[/QUOTE]
Well 10 years after the fall of Ceausescu was basically a limbo of inflation, state companies going broke, and nobody having any idea what capitalism is. And 10 years more was spent reforming the justice and police system, and then getting the anti-corruption directorate working properly. So I'll say, from the justice point of view, only the last 7 years really count.