Charter 77
Charter 77 (Charta 77 in Czech and in Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992. It is named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977.
The founding members and architects were Jiri Nemec, Vaclav Benda, Ladislav Hejdanek, Vaclav Havel, Jan Patocka, Zdenek Mlynar, Jiri Hajek, Martin Palous, Pavel Kohout and Ladislav Lis. The charter was seen as a political crime by the communist regime.
After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, many of its members played important roles in Czech and Slovak politics.
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Charter 77 signatories
Czech human rights activists