  charter 77 (charta 77 in czech and in slovak) was an informal civic initiative in communist czechoslovakia from 1976 to 1992, named after the document charter 77 from january 1977. founding members and architects were jiÅÃ­ nÄmec, vÃ¡clav benda, ladislav hejdÃ¡nek, vÃ¡clav havel, jan patoÄka, zdenÄk mlynÃ¡Å, jiÅÃ­ hÃ¡jek, martin palouÅ¡, and pavel kohout. spreading the text of the document was considered a political crime by the communist regime.s t a n o v i s k o generÃ¡lnÃ­ho prokurÃ¡tora Ässr, pÅedsedy nejvyÅ¡Å¡Ã­ho soudu Ässr, ministra spravedlnosti Ässr a generÃ¡lnÃ­ho prokurÃ¡tora Ässr k âprohlÃ¡Å¡enÃ­ charty 77â after the 1989 velvet revolution, many of its members played important roles in czech and slovak politics. ==founding and political aims==  motivated in part by the arrest of members of the psychedelic band plastic people of the universe, the text of charter 77 was prepared in 1976. in december 1976, the first signatures were collected.totalita.cz: charta 77 the charter was published on 6 january 1977, along with the names of the first 242 signatories, which represented various occupations, political viewpoints, and religions. although vÃ¡clav havel, ludvÃ­k vaculÃ­k and pavel landovskÃ½ were detained while trying to bring the charter to the federal assembly and the czechoslovak government and the original document was confiscated,podpisy prohlÃ¡Å¡enÃ­ charty 77 (1977â1989) copies circulated as samizdat and on 7 january were published in several western newspapers (including le monde, frankfurter allgemeine zeitung, the times and new york times) and transmitted to czechoslovakia by czechoslovak-banned radio broadcasters like radio free europe and voice of america. charter 77 criticized the government for failing to implement human rights provisions of a number of documents it had signed, including the 1960 constitution of czechoslovakia, the final act of the 1975 conference on security and cooperation in europe (basket iii of the helsinki accords), and 1966 united nations covenants on political, civil, economic, and cultural rights. the document also described the signatories as a "loose, informal, and open association of people . . . united by the will to strive individually and collectively f
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