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June 21, 2010
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More than 150,000 people turned out Thursday to cheer Mikhail S.
April 10, 1987
Riot police beat protesters with clubs Thursday and formed human cordons to drive 2,000 people from Wenceslas Square, where activists demanding more human rights have rallied five straight days.
Jan. 20, 1989
Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77 human rights group Sunday named its three spokesmen for 1988, among them one of the leading intellectuals of the “Prague Spring” 20 years ago.
Jan. 4, 1988
Former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jiri Hajek, who served during the Prague Spring reforms, was detained for five hours Friday while on his way to give a lecture in Prague on the 1968 reform movement, sources said.
July 15, 1989
Czechoslovakia’s authorities have barred the historian and human rights activist Milos Hajek from traveling to Italy for an East-West symposium on Stalinism, Hajek’s wife said Sunday.
May 29, 1989
Czechoslovak police rounded up more than 20 dissidents in an attempt to thwart an independent historical symposium scheduled to be attended today by prominent Western writers, academics and human rights activists.
Nov. 11, 1988
John Isner survives challenge of foul-mouthed Xavier Malisse
Aug. 29, 2012
Venetians have a message for Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi: Thanks, but no thanks.
Oct. 4, 1989
Prague authorities met dissidents Wednesday to discuss allowing what could be Czechoslovakia’s first officially sanctioned independent human rights demonstration.
Dec. 8, 1988