Radu Filipescu

Radu Filipescu

Radu Filipescu (b. December 26,1956 in Târgu-Mureş) is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident and inventor.

He graduated from the Bucharest Politechnical Institute's Department of Electronics And Telecommunications. He is the author of many inventions in his field, enjoying international recognition.

During dictator Ceauşescu's regime he served several years in prison for propaganda against the socialist order.

Dissident activity before 1989

Radu Filipescu had a very simple idea: people would take a walk on the streets at a certain hour on Sundays as a protest against the Communist dictator's regime. He made leaflets which he put into people's post boxes in Bucharest. This happened between December 1982 and May 1983. On May 7 1983 he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In December 1984 he was Amnesty International's Prisoner of the Month. On April 18, 1986 he was released on parole due to international pressure on the Romanian government, but also thanks to his family's efforts to make his case known abroad, and thanks to some non-governmental organizations, like The French League for Human Rights (La Ligue des Droits de l’Homme), and the efforts of some politicians from Western countries. He served time at Rahova prison, Jilava prison, and Aiud prison.

In 1987 he tried to organize a similar protest, but on December 12 he was arrested again, being released on December 22 of the same year without having been indicted. His was last arrested on December 22,1989, being relased at noon.

In May1988 he tried to start together with other former political prisoners a free trade union, called "Libertatea" (Freedom), but due to the intimidations of the Securităţii secret police, they failed.

Civic activity after 1989

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Radu Filipescu did not embark on a political career, focusing instead his efforts on the setting up of some NGOs. Thus, he was a founding member of the Group for Social Dialog, being elected its president (in 1998), founding member of APADOR-CH, founder and president of the Association of Revolutionaries Without Privilegies.

Books

Es gibt Dinge, die muss man einfach tun - Der Wiederstand des jungen Radu Filipescu (There Are Certain Things Which Simply Must Be Done- The Opposition of the Young Radu Filipescu)) - by Hema Kenel, book printed by Heder Verlag, Germany (ISBN 3-451-04446-3) in 1995 - is a book about his life as a dissident.

Jogging cu Securitatea is the Romanian version of the book, printed by Universal Dalsi in 1998

External links

# [http://www.revista22.ro/html/index.php?art=765&nr=2004-01-28 Interview with Radu Filipescu in "Revista 22"] (in Romanian)
# [http://crimelecomunismului.ro/ro/despre_iiccr/structura_iiccr/consiliul/radu_filipescu Radu Filipescu la Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului în România]
# http://apador.org/old/indexe.htm

# [http://arfp.ong.ro/index.htm Asociaţia Revoluţionarilor Fără Privilegii]


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