Stanislav Devátý outside the law
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 3, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00
Continuation of a year-long series from the archives of the Václav Havel Library on the emergence and activities of civic initiatives in the breakthrough year of 1989.
Stanislav Devátý was a signatory and spokesman of Charter 77 and a member of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted. On 16 January 1989 he laid a wreath at the grave of Jan Palach in Všetaty at a time when the cemetery was surrounded by the security forces of the communist regime. When he was picked up by the police he employed passive resistance, going on a hunger strike. In Zlín he set up the Society of Friends of the USA. In August 1989 he was sentenced to 20 months in prison. However, he evaded arrest by escaping to Poland.
The debate will be hosted by Jáchym Topol.
Photo (c) Mafra