I was 25 years old when I made the decision to sign Charter 77. I didn't realize that I was taking part in a historical event. I simply signed, not for the first time, a document calling for the ...

“It’s not as famous as some other anniversaries linked to the fall of communism,” said Zdenek Beranek, the chargé d’affaires at the Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Friday. He got emotional ...

Forty years ago, more than 200 activists became the first signatories of the Charter 77 manifesto, in which they appealed to the communist regime in Czechoslovakia to observe human rights – which the ...

Prague, Dec 8 (CTK) – The most famous “faces” of the Charter 77 anti-communist movement in former Czechoslovakia will be presented in an exhibition at Vaclav Havel square in Prague from January 6-26, ...

Prague, March 13 (CTK) – The exhibition Story of Charter 77 in the Salm Palace in Prague describing the fates of the first and longest lasting opposition movement in the former Eastern Bloc has opened ...

Charter 77 signatory Vaclav Havel, who would later become Czech President (AFP) PRAGUE, January 31, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- To many people around the world, Czechoslovakia’s anticommunist Charter 77 ...

October 1977: Tom Stoppard on the trial of Havel, Lederer, Pavlicek and Ornest, for dissent against the republic. By Tom Stoppard In January 1977, around 700 Czechoslovakians signed Charter 77, a ...

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