14 Facts About Gabriel Andreescu

Gabriel Andreescu is a Romanian human rights activist and political scientist born on 8 April 1952 in Buzau.

Gabriel Andreescu is one of the few Romanian dissidents who openly opposed Nicolae Ceausescu and the Communist regime in Romania.

Gabriel Andreescu is a prodigious journalist, writing and lecturing on topics such as multiculturalism, national minorities, religious freedom, and secularism, the ethics and politics of memory and others.

Gabriel Andreescu is editor of the Romanian-language New Journal of Human Rights.

Gabriel Andreescu taught high school physics, then moved to Bucharest where he worked as a researcher for the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology.

Between 1983 and 1987 Gabriel Andreescu dispatched clandestine information on human rights abuses in Romania to Radio Free Europe and wrote several anti-communist articles and studies, some of which he managed to send and publish abroad.

Gabriel Andreescu was investigated by the Securitate starting with 1979.

Gabriel Andreescu was arrested for his anti-communist activities in December 1987 and indicted for treason.

Gabriel Andreescu was demoted and placed by the Securitate under house arrest in Buzau, then again arrested, to be released after the revolution of December 1989.

Gabriel Andreescu co-founded and was president of the Group for Social Dialogue, as well as founding member and vice-president of the Civic Alliance.

Gabriel Andreescu founded and headed other organizations developing strategies and projects in support of human rights, among them the Ombudspersons for National Minorities, the Center for International Studies, the Center of Inquiry-affiliated Center for Critical Conscience, and the Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience.

Gabriel Andreescu was a board member of several other organizations, as well as a member of the scientific boards of other organizations.

In recognition of his human rights activism and contribution to the development of Romanian civil society, Gabriel Andreescu received several awards from Romanian institutions and organizations:.

Gabriel Andreescu published more than 1000 articles, 150 studies, 28 books, and contributed to several collective volumes.