Förre presidenten utreds för människorättsbrott

Ion Iliescu (rumänskt uttal: [iˈon iliˈesku]), född 3 mars 1930 i Olteniţa, var Rumäniens president 1990 till 1996 och 2000 till 2004. Han gick med i Rumäniens kommunistiska parti 1953 och fick en karriär inom partiet. Han hade en ledande roll under den rumänska revolutionen och utsågs juldagarna 1989 landets president, vilket bekräftades i fria val 1990 och 1992, där Iliescu slöt sig till de nybildade socialdemokraterna. 1996 led han nederlag mot liberalen Emil Constantinescu men fick revansch fyra år senare.

The June 1990 Mineriad was the suppression of an anti-National Salvation Front (FSN) sit-in protests in Bucharest, Romania by the physical intervention of groups of industrial workers as well as coal miners from the Jiu Valley, brought to Bucharest by the government to counter the rising violence of the protesters. This event occurred several weeks after the FSN achieved a landslide victory in the May 1990 general election, the first elections after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime. Many of the miners, factory workers, and other anti-protester groups, fought with the protesters and bystanders. The violence resulted in some deaths and many injuries on both sides of the confrontations. Official figures listed seven fatalities and hundreds of injured, although media estimates of the number killed and injured varied widely and were often much higher.