Charter 77 (Charta 77 in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Němec, Václav Benda, Ladislav Hejdánek, Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, Martin Palouš, Pavel Kohout, and Ladislav Lis. Spreading the text of the document was considered a political crime by the Czechoslovak government.[1] After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, many of the members of the initiative played important roles in Czech and Slovak politics.
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Charter77 (Charta 77 in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the...
from the declaration. The Charter'97 declaration deliberately echoes the Czechoslovak human rights declaration Charter77 made 20 years before. It was...
of individuals linked by a common cause, such as human-rights petition Charter77. Officially suppressed, the essay was circulated in samizdat form and...
edition of the New Statesman magazine in 1988 and it took its name from Charter77 – the Czechoslovak dissident movement co-founded by Václav Havel. It was...
Charter77 and Civic Forum) created Music Clubs (on a limited basis as only allowed NGOs) and published home-made periodicals (samizdat). Charter77 was...
combined with a signature campaign by prominent cultural figures, condemning Charter77, a civic initiative drawn up by Václav Havel and Pavel Kohout, among others...
anti-Soviet Charter77 issued by dissidents in Czechoslovakia. Since its release, more than 10,000 people inside and outside China have signed the charter. After...
moral and spiritual, rather than physical and military strength. The Charter77 movement had the motto "Truth prevails for those who live in truth". Part...
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984 and who was one of the signatories of Charter77, lived there in 1929. Golden Lane is connected with Dalibor Tower, which...
dissident Vaclav Benda in connection with the informal civic initiative, Charter77. Benda and other philosophers sought to build a theoretical framework...
organized opposition emerged under the umbrella of Charter77. On 6 January 1977, a manifesto called Charter77 appeared in West German newspapers. The original...
of its (self-appointed) leaders came from Prague-based members of the Charter77 dissident movement. In December 1989, Jan Urban became the Forum's chairman...
a medailér". Moravskoslezský deník (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-01-26. "Charter77 founder František Janouch dies at 92". Radio Prague International. 2024-01-12...
for several years (1968–70). In 1977 he was one of the signatories of Charter77 in opposition to the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic...
(VONS) – most of whom had been signatories of the human rights document Charter77. Author Salman Rushdie stated in a 1999 interview, that Letters to Olga...
movements in many Communist countries, such as the Prague Spring and Charter77 in Czechoslovakia and the uprisings in Hungary. Most civil rights movements...
The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of developing countries, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests...
important for dissidents in the Eastern Bloc (Soviet human rights movement, Charter77, Workers' Defence Committee), this period also saw a growing reframing...
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