PUBLIC SCANDALS:
Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania
A report by Human Rights Watch
and the International Gay and Lesbian
Human Rights Commission
New York · Washington · London ·
Brussels
Copyright © January 1998 by Human Rights Watch and IGLHRC
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 1-56432-178-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-84053
CONTENTS
1. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The 1936 Penal Code
Advent of Article 200
3. ABUSE OF HOMOSEXUALS IN THE NEW ROMANIA
The
Case of Ciprian Cucu and Marian Mutascu
The
Case of Costel Barbu, Mihaita Boghean, Cosmin Hutanu, Augustin Moldoveanu,
and Mihai Vechiu
The
Case of Ovidiu Banu, Lucian Blaga, Ovidiu Bozdog, Florin Hopris, Gheorghe
Nastase, and Ciprian Stoica
The Case of Traian Pasca
The
Case of Ovidiu Chetea, Nicolae Petricas, and Nicolae Stupariu
Revising Article
200
The Concept of Public Scandal
"In Public"
Recent
Cases Under Article 200, Paragraph 1
The
Case of Gheorghe Murariu, Constantin Pirvu, and Mircea Rusu
The
Case of Radu Vasiliu and Adrian Gabriel Presnac
The
Cases of Florian Cristian Hanganu and Stefan Harabula, and of Gavril Bors
and Mihai Tintila
5. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATION
"Inciting
and Encouraging: The Case of Mariana Cetiner
"Propaganda,
Association, or Any Form of Proselytism"
6. DISCRIMINATION IN DEFINING THE "AGE OF CONSENT"
7. ABUSES BY POLICE AND OTHER OFFICIALS
Surveillance,
Blackmail, Control
Surveillance in Baia-Mare
Police Beatings and Torture
Homosexuality in Detention
8. LAW, MEDICINE, AND SEXUALITY
9. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DETAILED RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDIX
II: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH POLICY
ON LESBIAN AND GAY
RIGHTS (1994)