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Radu Filipescu

Radu Filipescu was born on 26 December 1955, in Târgu Mureş. He graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications within the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. He is the author of numerous inventions in his field of work, many of these having been internationally acknowledged.

Radu Filipescu
During the communist dictatorship, Radu Filipescu initiated a series of constant actions against the system. Thus, he distributed anti-Ceauşescu leaflets from December 1982 until May 1983, when he was arrested and sentenced to ten years of prison because of his propagandistic activity against the regime. In December 1984 he was nominated as the 'prisoner of the month' by Amnesty International within an international liberation campaign of political prisoners in the East-European countries. He is freed on 18 April 1986, due to the influence exerted by organizations such as Amnesty International and La Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, as well as by Free Europe and the Voice of America radio stations, after three years of detention in the penitentiaries of Rahova, Jilava and Aiud.

In December 1987 he was arrested again and freed a short time after his arrest, due to international pressures. He is kept, nevertheless, under strict surveillance because of his anti-communist acts. In May 1988, Radu Filipescu set up, together with other former political prisoners, 'Libertatea' ('Freedom') Trade Union, by means of which he solicited support from the international organizations in order to help the reestablishment of democracy in Romania. He also took part in the street revolt of 21 and 22 December 1989.

In the aftermath of the Romanian revolution of December 1989, Radu Filipescu became a founding member of Apador-CH, of the Civic Alliance (A.C.) and of the Group for Social Dialogue (G.D.S.). Radu Filipescu, was, for a few years, the president of the Group for Social Dialogue, as well as the president of the Unprivileged Revolutionaries Association (A.R.F.P.)

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