Gherla Prison
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Gherla Prison is a penitentiary located in the Romanian city of Gherla, in Cluj County. The prison dates from 1785; it is infamous for the treatment of its political inmates, especially during the Com
Gherla Prison, circa 1918
Detail from the Icon of the New Martyrs of the Romanian Land (at Diaconești Monastery in Agăș), showing political detainees being tortured at Gherla Prison
Securitate
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The Department of State Security, commonly known as the Securitate, was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was founded on 30 August 1948 from the Siguranța with help and
Gherla Prison
…continue the process there, were in fact transported to Jilava for interrogation. Two torturers carried on at Gherla until March 1952, either because the Securitate secret police wanted to carry on the experiment under maximum-security conditions, or because they wished to collect evidence for the eventual trial…
Ion Mihai Pacepa in 1975
Repressive system in Romania and Moldova, 1946–1989