Radu Negrescu-Suţu (1950 - )
Radu Negrescu-Suţu (1950 - ) A biography.

Summary/Abstract: Radu Negrescu-Suțu is the only surviving member of a group of young individuals from the 1970s who sought to flee communist Romania. The human rights movement initiated by writer Paul Goma in the winter of 1977 represented a pivotal opportunity for many Romanians to break their silence and confront their fear of the Securitate, the regime’s secret police. Following Goma’s arrest, Radu Negrescu-Suțu and his peers joined the broader dissident movement and established their own group, known as GRUP CANAL 77. They were all illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor, under the pretext of being „social parasites”. Despite the repression, they continued to assert their rights. Eventually, under internal and external pressure, the communist authorities granted them passports, allowing them to emigrate to the free world.

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