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Jiří Dienstbier

Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech journalist. Along with Václav Havel and others, he was a signatory to Charter 77, which demanded human rights and political freedoms for Czechoslovak citizens. He and many other Charter 77 supporters were imprisoned for their activities.

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Letters from Prison

Václav Havel & Jiří Dienstbier

‘When the governor forbade Havel to write essays, ordering him to write only about himself, he started a series on his fifteen different moods.’

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