European Costa-Foru and the League for Human and Civil Rights in the integration of Bessarabia into the political life of Romania after 1918

C.G. Costa-Foru (1856-1935) was an outstanding personality of the Romanian culture, well-known journalist, lawyer, human rights activist and secretary of the League for Human and Civil Rights (1923-1929), the founder of the Committee on Amnesty (1928-1929) and the Bloc for Defense of Democratic Freedoms (1935). As a vice-president of the General Association of the Romanian Press, founded December 2, 1918 in Bucharest, C.G. Costa-Foru had an audience with the king and boldly expressed to him harsh accusations of censorship, suppression of the press and the arrests of journalists. His activities in the framework of the League for Human and Civil Rights, the Committee on Amnesty (1928-1929) and the Bloc for Defense of Democratic Freedoms were closely linked to practical measures for the integration of Bessarabia into the political life of Romania after 1918.