sentences:  In spring he moved to Bucharest, but soon the June 1990 Mineriad broke out and he barely managed to hide from a group of armed miners looking for him.He arrived with his family in London that September, seeking asylum, was sentenced "in absentia" by a Romanian court to five years' imprisonment in 1992, was granted asylum in 1994 and became a British citizen in 2002.Dobre sees the strike as a "prelude" to the events of December 1989.