Romanian MEP Diana Șoșoacă and former husband indicted for deprivation of liberty

17 July 2026 Romanian prosecutors from the General Prosecutor’s Office indicted MEP and leader of far-right SOS Romania party, Diana Șoșoacă, and her former husband, Silvestru Șoșoacă, in a case concerning the deprivation of liberty of several Italian journalists dating back to 2021. Specifically, the incident took place in December 2021, when Italian journalists from Rai Uno claimed they had been held against their will after an interview with Diana Șoșoacă, who was a senator at the time, and her husband. As a result, the pair was officially charged with four counts of unlawful deprivation of liberty. "On December 10, 2021, the two defendants unlawfully deprived four people (three injured parties and one witness) of their liberty after they had been invited to the defendant's law office i