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Ani SANDU

Romanian Ex-prisoners Fight To Save Memory Of Former Communist Jails

Niculina Moica was held as a teenager in the Jilava prison by the Communist regime (Credit: AFP)

Niculina Moica felt the weight of history as she pushed open the rusty iron gate to the former Communist prison of Jilava, where she was detained as a teenager.

Jilava is one of 44 prisons and 72 forced labour camps set up under Romania's Communist regime (1945-1989) to incarcerate more than 150,000 political prisoners, according to the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes.

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