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Václav Havel

Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, former dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003)

April 2010

  • liberty central
    Justice arrested in Venezuela

    Václav Havel

    Václav Havel: Oswaldo Álvarez Paz's arrest is evidence of Chávez's abuse of the legal system and the silencing of his critics

January 2010

  • China's champion of peace

    Václav Havel et al
    Václav Havel et al: The human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned in China, deserves the 2010 Nobel peace prize

June 2009

  • EU must raise Cuba's iron curtain

    Václav Havel
    Václav Havel: In discussions this week, EU politicians should remind their Cuban partners of their duty to respect human and civil rights

April 2009

  • liberty central
    Open up Tibet's trials

    Václav Havel, Prince Hassan Bin Talal, Desmond Tutu, Vartan Gregorian and Yohei Sasakawa
    Václav Havel: We call on China to overturn the decision to execute two more Tibetan protesters and open its courts to international scrutiny
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