What was Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia?

Charter 77

Charta 77

January 1977. In January 1977 a group of citizens published Charter 77, a document asking the state simply to keep the human-rights agreements it had itself signed.

Where: Czechia

What happened

In January 1977 a group of citizens published Charter 77, a document asking the state simply to keep the human-rights agreements it had itself signed. Among its first spokesmen were the playwright Václav Havel and the philosopher Jan Patočka, who died after police interrogations that March. The signatories lost jobs and were watched and jailed, but the Charter kept a free voice alive for twelve years.

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Chartu 77 podepsali lidé, kteří chtěli žít v pravdě.

Charter 77 was signed by people who wanted to live in truth.

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