Scores of others have been imprisoned or detained. or subjected to house searches and confiscation of property for the nonviolent expression of their beliefs. including over 130 signatories to the Democracy for All manifesto of the Movement for Civil Liberties. The human rights situation in Romania remains especially bleak. There are no signs that Ceausescus Rural Sistematization Program with its goal of destroying up to half of Romanias 13.000 villages and forcibly resettling their populations into agroindustrial centers will be abandoned. The Government continues to violate the rights of national minority members. religious believers. wouldbe emigrants and all who seek to exercise the freedom of expression. As a result. thousands of Romanian citizens. mostly members of the Hungarian minority. have taken refuge in Hungary. Hundreds more are in prison for attempting to cross the border illegally.
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