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Romania: NATO Summit in Bucharest

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Romania, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, International Relations, Law, Politics, Protest

Mihnea Dumitru announces his plans to leave the city for the duration of the NATO Summit in Bucharest [1], which begins today: “In a perfect show of support for my government and its intentions to transform the capital into a no-man’s land where nothing can possibly go wrong, I have decided to flee to the mountainside, where I should be enjoying relative peace and calm with my friends. […] My decision primarly rests on the treatment of six German nationals received over at one of our border check-points. Without any sort of reason or motivation, they were taken into custody for 19 hours, searched both inside and out, found to be carrying nothing wrong short of a few anti-NATO posters and urban survival literature, declared dangerous and then summarily sent back to where they came from.”