Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected post-revolution leader, dies at 95
Romanian President Ion Iliescu during an interview with the Associated Press in Bucharest in 2004. Picture: Vadim Ghirda/AP
Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revolution, has died. He was 95.
Mr Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anti-communist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed on December 25 1989.
