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Law No. 102 From 9 February 1945 For The Cleaning Of The Press

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 102 din 9 februarie 1945 pentru epurarea presei

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LEGE no. 102 102 of 9 February 1945 for press purge
ISSUER KING MICHAEL
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 34 34 of 12 February 1945



MICHAEL I Through the grace of God and the national will, King of Romania, To all the girls and the future, health, On the report of our Secretary of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, with No. 3,593 of 6 February 1945, Seeing also the journal of the Council of Ministers with No. 235 of 1945, Based on the high mood royal decree with No. 1.626 of 31 August 1944 , published in the Official Gazette No. 202 of Septemvrie 1944, We decreed and decreed: + Article 1 They will be sanctioned with the penalties provided for in art. 2, journalists, publicists and collaborators of the press, who, before August 23, 1944, through their writing or action in the press, were guilty of one of the following facts: a) They were at the service of Hitler or fascism, thus serving foreign interests of those of the Romanian nation; b) They were stypened by the powers of the axis for propaganda in favour of their policy; c) They prepared the public opinion for the entry into the Axis and urged the unjust war against the United Nations; d) They campaigned for ideas contrary to democratic principles, or, influenced by anti-democratic conceptions, they urged acts of terror, rebellion, schingiuiri and killings or participated in them. + Article 2 Sanctions for the facts provided in art. 1 are the following: 1. Written Admonestation. 2. Suspension of activity from 6 months to 5 years. 3. Final ban. The suspension and prohibition concern the exercise of the right to write in the press and to publish any work of a political nature. The penalties provided for by this article shall apply in particular to other penalties which the laws would provide. + Article 3 The punishment for suspending the activity from 6 months to 5 years, can be aggravated up to no more than twice the term provided for those who during the suspension, will be written in the press or published any political work. The authorization of appearance will be withdrawn from 7 days to 1 year to publications that, knowingly, will print the material written by those suspended or who have been permanently banned from writing in the press. For the good science of political works, published by an author who enters the provisions of this law, will apply to the owners of publishing houses or prints, the punishment of confiscation of the work and the fine from 50,000 to 1,000,000 lei. + Article 4 After the completion of the works of the Commission provided in 5, aggravation of the suspension sentence, as well as confiscation and fine will be handed down by the court after the procedure of common law, notified by the professional organizations of the journalists + Article 5 A commission composed of a president and four members, all professional journalists, appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will proceed within three months, to the research and preparation of lists of persons entering the provisions of this law. She will pronounce the admonition for slight deviations and, through reasoned conclusion to the Council of Ministers, will propose the suspension or prohibition for serious misconduct. The three-month deadline can be extended by the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a maximum of three months. The commission will be able to designate a secretary among professional journalists. Commission decisions shall be taken by a majority of the members appointed to the commission. The decision to suspend or ban will be given by a journal of the Council of Ministers. + Article 6 The commission will inform itself in any way and is not obliged to show the means by which it has reached its finding. She will quote by registered letter the one investigated, if he has the real domicile and known in the country, and the interest will be able to appear by all means of proof, personally, through the trustee or through the memo. Those with unknown domicile will be invited by citation published in the Official Gazette, with at least 10 days off before research. + Article 7 All provisions contrary to this decree-law are also repealed. MIHAI Minister of Foreign Affairs, Const. Visoianu The report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to M. S. King. Sire, Among the areas in which a purge is required is also the press that has a role as a guiding of public opinion. The epuration is all the more necessary in this field because it is inadmissible that people who campaigned through the press and political works against democratic principles or put themselves at the service of foreign interests to those of the Romanian nation or have prepared the war alongside the axis against the United Nations and in favour of Hitler and fascism could continue to play a leading role of public opinion in the current democratic regime. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs which, by abolishing the Ministry of Propaganda, has taken over the regulatory powers of the press and information and on the other hand, by its natural attributions it has a vigil over the maintenance of good relations with The United Nations, reckons it necessary to intervene so that the removal from the press of those who worked against the United Nations should be done as quickly as possible. Taking into account the proposals to amend the treatment laws presented so far, the current draft law has introduced a gradation of sanctions, according to the seriousness of the facts. The decision to ban or suspend the exercise of the right to write in the press is to be pronounced by the journal of the Council of Ministers, since, the minister of a department cannot decline from a right persons who are not part of the administration dependent on him. Authorized by the Council of Ministers, respectfully subdued of Your Majesty, submit for approval and signing the draft decree-law joined. I'm with the deepest respect, Sire, Your Majesty, too long gone and too obedient, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Const. Visoianu -------