12 People light candles in front of a line of riot police who had stopped protesters from crossing a bridge on November 21. 13 Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright and former political prisoner ...

Editor’s Note: Paul Wilson has known Vaclav Havel since the 1970s and has translated ... and suffered many more years of intrusive police surveillance. He was not alone, of course, but his ...

But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for ... and in November the Berlin Wall fell. Eight days later, police brutally broke up a demonstration by thousands of Prague students.

It has not reestablished a police state, it hasn’t accepted doctrinal ... the “moral exhibitionism” of its new president, Vaclav Havel. Translations of the foregoing excerpts from the ...

Hands whirring like twin propellers, Václav Havel moves with his characteristic hurried ... Although the communist secret police then assessed the active core of the Charter 77 movement – probably ...

Mr. Luers used writers and artists to help shield the Czech writer and dissident Vaclav Havel from communist reprisals during ...

Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has won the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize ... 15 days in jail on a charge of disobeying police. He was later charged with spreading ...

Czechs joined their leaders and foreign politicians Sunday in paying tribute to Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 ... Eight days later, communist police brutally broke up a demonstration by thousands ...