sentences:  But the opposition of the Hungarian Communists saw another prelate chosen for the position.Márton continued to be a strong advocate for religious freedom and human rights which made him an opponent of the Romanian Communists and of the dictatorial regime that it had established in late 1947.The bishop was arrested on 21 June 1949 and was sentenced to life imprisonment in mid-1951; but in 1953 - with the change of the political climate in Romania - the circumstances of his imprisonment became more bearable.