The World - News from Aug. 8, 1989

An exile Romanian human rights group in Paris said two ethnic Hungarians were beaten to death in the last two months by Romanian security agents. A spokesman for the League for Human Rights Defense in Romania said that Tamas Ianos, 42, was arrested May 23 at a Christian ceremony in Cluj province and was later killed by security agents, who interrogated him on how he obtained meat served at the ceremony. Tamas Imre, 38, was arrested in a bar in the town of Miercurea Ciuc on June 12 for ordering a drink in Hungarian and was later fatally beaten, the league said. Romania has previously been accused of violating the rights of its Hungarian minority.