Charter 77

Published: Jan. 6, 2012, 2:53 p.m.

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Thirty-five years ago an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia with a call for human rights.

More than 200 writers and intellectuals signed the original Charter - many of them were then arrested.

One of the leaders of the movement was Vaclav Havel, the playwright who went on to become President after the fall of communism.

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