Word: havel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most notably Czechoslovakia. There, the particular target of Party Chief Gustav Husak's secret police is the movement that has grown over the past three years around Charter 77, a human rights manifesto signed by 1,000 people. Last month six Charter 77 organizers, among them Playwright Vaclav Havel, received sentences of up to five years for "subversion of the republic." Since then more than 25 Charter 77 signers have been hauled in for questioning on various trumped-up charges, including attempts to blow up a Prague bridge and to assassinate Husak...
...Prague last week, three signers of another manifesto, the Charter '77 human rights appeal, were tried for subversion. In the dock were Playwright Václav Havel, Journalist Jiři Lederer and Theater Director František Pavliċek. A fourth defendant, Otto Ornest, had not signed Charter '77 but was accused of handing documents to a foreign diplomat and was tried with the other three...
...hands of the CIA. In lieu of evidence, the prosecution referred to a bar of chocolate that Lederer's daughter had supposedly received from the CIA. After deliberating 1½ days, the court meted out 3½ years to Ornest, three years to Lederer, suspended sentences to Havel and Pavliċek. Said Havel: "It was a dress rehearsal for trials of many other signers of the Charter...
Playwright Vaclav Havel, Journalist Jiri Lederer and Writer Frantisek Pavlicek, who are prominent chartists, awaited trial in Prague. Police meanwhile swooped down on signers and took away their identity cards, making it impossible for them to use the post office. Others found that their children had been barred from colleges and universities. Chartists continued to refuse government offers to let them emigrate, electing to remain with their countrymen in spite of the risk. When one activist was arrested, another had already been designated to take his place. The goal of the charter movement, says one of its founders, Philosopher...
...Alexander Dubček that was brutally crushed by Soviet troops. In addition to the Kohouts, the chartists include former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, former Politburo Member František Kriegel, former Party Secretary Zdenek Mlynar, Student Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed in 1952 during Stalinist-style purges. Dubček, who now holds a minor bureaucratic post in the Forestry Commission in Bratislava, was not among the signers...