On June 22, 2015, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis promulgated an unconstitutional law which is both historically unfair and immoral. He reinstated censorship—in violation of the rights to the freedom of expression and association—under the false pretext of prohibiting the negation of the Holocaust and prohibiting the xenophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism (in connection to which a law has already been in force since 2002).
This new law, No. 217/2015, acknowledges the political court decisions ruled by the communist regime between 1945–1964 and forbids the public promotion of the Legionary Movement (which has never been convicted by any Romanian or international court) as well as of any people who have been a part of such movement. Any members of the anti-communist resistance are now deemed offenders by the Romanian state and the law requires that they should be removed from the public domain by pulling down their commemorative statues and commemorative plaques.
