Doftana was a Romanian prison, sometimes referred to as "the Romanian Bastille". Built in 1895 in connection with the nearby salt mines, from 1921 it...

Doftana may refer to the following places in Romania: Doftana, a village in Telega Commune, Prahova County Doftana prison, a Romanian prison built in 1895...

to escape the violence unharmed). Codreanu was moved from Jilava to Doftana Prison, where, despite the sentence, he was not required to perform any form...

in prison, an additional 6 months for contempt of court, and one year of forced residence in Scornicești. He spent most of his sentence in Doftana Prison...

years of prison for his role in the Grivița Strike of 1933. He spent time at the Aiud, Doftana, Târgu Ocna, Văcărești, and Caransebeș prisons. In 1935–1936...

to prison in the same year by a military court, serving time in Doftana and in other facilities. In 1935–1936 he was detained at Ocnele Mari Prison, together...

towards the river Teleajen. Doftana village is the site of the former Doftana prison. Telega railway station was the terminus of the former Câmpina–Câmpinița–Telega...

Siguranţa Statului (the secret police), he was arrested and held in Doftana Prison. When returning to his mother country, Wurmbrand was already an important...

Caught by accident, Bodnăraș was sentenced to ten years in prison. Imprisoned at Brașov, Doftana, and Caransebeș, he entered the Romanian Communist Party...

and sent to prison. While at Doftana Prison, he befriended Nicolae Ceaușescu, a fellow inmate at the time. Marcovici died at Doftana Prison in 1940, when...

was opposed by the "prison faction" (most of whom had spent the Fascist period in Romanian prisons, particularly in the Doftana Prison). Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej...

confessions that are still being kept secret." Moved between Văcărești and Doftana prisons in 1931–1934, Ștefan Foriș was released in 1935, two years before the...

British pounds in 2016 rates). In June, while filing his appeal from Doftana prison, he made a final attempt at placating the camarilla, offering to split...

Some prisons in Romania formerly housed political prisoners, both during successive dictatorships of 1938–1944 and during the subsequent Communist regime...

times, Apostol was sentenced in 1937 to three years in prison, which he served in Galați and Doftana. His activities upon his release from jail got him interned...

prisoners belonging to this category, part of them previously held at Doftana Prison, which collapsed in the 1940 Vrancea earthquake. Until the 1944 coup...

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the following year, he was repeatedly sentenced to prison terms, and detained at Jilava, Doftana, Craiova, Miercurea-Ciuc, and Caracal. After 1936, Preoteasa...

nine years later, and sentenced to a twenty-years' imprisonment. While at Doftana, he became the ringleader of imprisoned Soviet spies, together with whom...

closed down, and all suspected PCdR activists faced detention (see Doftana Prison). Siguranța Statului, the Romanian secret police, infiltrated the small...

of Romania at Craiova alongside Ana Pauker and spent time in prison at Jilava, Doftana, and Caransebeș. While in detention, he grew close to future leader...

detained at Ocnele Mari Prison, the first political prisoner to be held there. Bujor spent most of the interwar period imprisoned at Doftana, with long periods...

military information. In prison, he spent part of his sentence alongside another NKVD agent, Gheorghe Pintilie. While at Doftana Prison, the two belonged to...

communist". He spent time at Doftana, Jilava, and Caransebeș prisons before being transferred in April 1944 to the prison camp at Târgu Jiu. While incarcerated...

consequently sentenced to a one-year prison term. He was for a while held in Chișinău jail, then moved to Doftana prison, in the company of other PCR militants...

between prisons—Jilava, Văcărești, and ultimately Craiova. Sociologist Vladimir Tismăneanu argues that Petrescu also spent time in Doftana Prison, where...

as part of a field trip, he visited Doftana Prison. It was here that he first became aware of the need for prison reform. Pandrea took his licentiate...

Romania from Ruse, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in 1924 in Doftana prison following a 32-day hunger strike. "Atentatul de la Senatul României...

sent to prison several times for his activities, he was detained at Galata (Iași), Suceava, and Jilava prisons before being sent to Doftana Prison. There...

many of its leaders. They were held in the Doftana prison, which was notoriously one of the harshest prisons in Europe, according to contemporary human...