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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 23-6-30
TITLE:             An Annotated List of Charter 77 Documents (1977-1986)
BY:                Vilem Precan
DATE:              1987-8-6
COUNTRY:           Czechoslovakia
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  RAD Background Report/132

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RAD Background Report/132
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6 August 1987

AN ANNOTATED LIST OF CHARTER 77 DOCUMENTS (1977-1986)

by Vilem Precan

Introduction. Charter 77 is a sort of citizens' initiative,
an expression of civic responsibility, an open and informal
fellowship or community. In short, Charter 77 has many forms
and faces. In its narrowest sense, the name denotes no more
than the original declaration of 1 January 1977, which has now
been signed by over 1,200 people and is available for anyone to
sign who wishes to do so, as is the case with all documents
bearing the signatures of the Charter spokesmen.

At first the only documents the Charter sought to publish,
apart from communiques on particular issues, were general
statements on human rights in Czechoslovakia agreed to by
diverse signatories. As of October 1978 though, Charter 77
started publishing a series of documents containing the
viewpoints of individuals or groups of authors, sometimes from
outside the Charter circle, that would otherwise stand no chance
of being published. In so doing, the Charter helped promote a
freer exchange of views and mold public opinion. Such documents
are published with a brief attestation from Charter spokesmen,
confirming the document's authenticity and declaring that the
opinion does not necessarily represent the views of other
Charter members. This practice is still in effect.

In the beginning, the group distinguished between numbered
and unnumbered texts." As of 1982 Charter spokesmen started
numbering all texts published as "Charter 77 Documents"; each
new year the numbering begins at one. This is done regardless
of the document's contents or form or whether it represents the
Charter's views or not.

The following is a chronological list of all Charter 77
documents. The criteria for including a particular text were
whether it was signed by the group's spokesmen and whether the
document was signed by them on behalf of the Charter. Those
texts signed by people other than Charter spokesmen, such as the

This material was prepared for the use of the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

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joint Charter 77-KOR statements and texts issued as joint
Charter 77-VONS declarations, have also been included.

The documents are arranged by date (and number where
applicable), the type of document (for example, statement,
communique, letter, telegram, or analysis), to whom it was
addressed, and contents, together with any other relevant
information.

1977

1 January 1977, Document No. 1
Charter 77 issued its founding declaration stating the Charter's
purpose and methods of working; it was signed by 241 people
(12,500 words).

8 January 1977, Document No. 2
Report on police action against Charter 77 on January 6 and 7
and on foreign reactions to the Charter (720 words).

15 January 1977, Document No. 3
Letter to the Czechoslovak government and to news agencies
about the harassment of Charter signatories by the state
authorities and the anti-Charter campaign in the Czechoslovak
media (640 words).

23 January 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak government asserting the validity
in Czechoslovakia of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights as well as the right of Czechoslovak
citizens to work for their implementation (230 words). (These
two covenants were adopted by the UN General Assembly in
December 1966, signed by Czechoslovakia in October 1968, and
ratified by the Czechoslovak President and the Federal Assembly
in November 1975; both cvenants entered into force for the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic on 23 March 1976; Document No. 1
explicitly refers to the incorporation of these documents into
the Czechoslovak legal system as the basis on which Charter
would pursue its activities.)

End of January 1977, Document No. 4
Analysis of discrimination in education in Czechoslovakia
(1,800 words); appended were instructions from the Ministry of
Education listing political criteria for classifying candidates
for higher education (300 words).

1 February 1977, Document No. 5
List of 208 additional signatories.

3 February 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly, with copies to
the Prime Minister's office, the Public Prosecutor General, and
CETEKA, criticizing the Public Prosecutor for declaring
Charter 77 illegal on 31 January 1977 (1,100 words).

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15 February 1977, Document No. 6
Report about state-organized anti-Charter operations and a
slander campaign against individual signatories (1,900 words).

23 February 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly, with a copy to
the Prime Minister's office, asserting the rights of
Czechoslovak citizens in assisting to implement the
international covenants on human rights (180 words).

8 March 1977, Document No. 7
Analysis of the state of economic and social rights in
Czechoslovakia (2,200 words).

9 March 1977, Document No. 8
List of the 617 signatories to date.

22 April 1977, Document No. 9
Analysis of the state of freedom of belief in Czechoslovakia
(1,500 words).

25 April 1977, Document No. 10
Assessment of Charter 77's four months in existence, its
activities, and the state of civil and human rights in
Czechoslovakia, as well as proposals on changes in the area of
human rights (1,800 words). (Text released on 29 April 1977.)

26 May 1977
Communique about the resignation of Vaclav Havel as Charter 77
spokesman (120 words).

30 May 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly, with copies to
the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General, the Central Council
of Trade Unions, the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs,
and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), about
occupational discrimination against Charter 77 signatories and
citizens refusing to condemn the Charter (signed by Jiri Hajek
and 10 other signatories) (3,400 words). Appended to the letter
were the details of 47 individual cases.

13 June 1977, Document No. 11
Communique on the situation of Charter 77 (340 words) and a
list of 133 additional signatories.

30 June 1977, Document No. 12
Analysis of discrimination against writers in Czechoslovakia
(1,400 words); appended was a list of 130 Czech writers entirely
or partially banned from publication.

30 June 1977
Communique about dismissals from work in connection with
Charter 77 and the financial difficulties of those involved (150
words).

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21 September 1977
Communique on the outcome of internal discussions about
Charter 77's future activity and the decision to increase the
number of spokesmen (1,200 words); it was accompanied by a
letter from Jiri Hajek, who was sole spokesman from March to
21 September 1977 (110 words).

21 September 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly requesting an
investigation into police attacks on young people during the
Chod festivities at Kdyne on 13 and 14 August 1977 (210 words).

Beginning of October 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak President recalling Czechoslovakia's
obligations as a signatory state to the Helsinki Final Act and
the International Covenants on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights and on Civil and Political Rights; the letter was sent on
the occasion of the opening of the Belgrade CSCE review meeting
(1,360 words).

12 October 1977
Declaration sent to the Czechoslovak Press Agency and foreign
press agencies about the forthcoming trial of Jiri Lederer, Ota
Ornest, Frantisek Pavlicek, and Vaclav Havel (650 words).

17 October 1977
Communique about the trial of Charter 77 signatories Vladimir
Lastuvka and Ales Machacek in Usti nad Labem from 26 to 28
September 1977 (340 words).

1 November 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly about violations
of legality and court procedures during the trial of Jiri
Lederer, Ota Ornest, Frantisek Pavlicek, and Vaclav Havel (1,050
words).

10 November 1977
Open letter to a conference in Oldenburg, West Germany, about
regulations in various countries (including Czechoslovakia)
banning specific groups of people from being employed in certain
occupations (290 words).

14 November 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General about the
unlawful prosecution of a Charter 77 signatory, the actor Pavel
Landovsky (860 words).

16 November 1977
Open letter to Polish friends thanking them for declarations
of support for political prisoners and defendants in political
trials in Czechoslovakia; it was issued in reply to a letter
from the Polish Social Self-Defense Committee (KOR) of 31
October 1966 (280 words).

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20 November 1977, Document No. 13
Analysis of state regulations, bans, and limitations governing
popular music in Czechoslovakia (2,460 words).

23 November 1977
Declaration about plans by the state authorities to indict
Charter 77 on charges of criminal conspiracy (800 words).

9 December 1977
Analysis of discriminatory practices affecting the selection
of young people for secondary and higher education (950 words);
it was intended as an addendum to Document No. 4 and had
appended a detailed list of 30 cases of discrimination
(4,000 words).

12 December 1977
Letter to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister about the harassment
and police surveillance of Frantisek Kriegel and Petr Uhl (400
words).

21 December 1977, Document No. 14
List of 82 additional signatories and amendments to previous
lists.

1978

5 January 1978
Communique about the hunger strike to be observed by many
Charter 77 signatories on 12 January 1978, the day on which
appeals by Jiri Lederer, Ota Ornest, Frantisek Pavlicek, and
Vaclav Havel were to be heard by the Czech Supreme Court
(110 words).

6 January 1978
Analysis of Charter 77's first year of activity and the state
of human rights in Czechoslovakia (1,980 words).

9 January 1978
Letter to a rally of Belgian citizens expressing Charter 77's
appreciation for their show of solidarity with Charter on its
first anniversary (300 words).

10 January 1978
Letter to the delegates at the Helsinki review meeting in
Belgrade asserting the role of human rights and fundamental
freedoms as a condition for peace, security, and cooperation in
Europe (540 words).

10 January 1978
Open letter to the Czechoslovak President protesting at the
brutal police treatment of the Charter 77 spokesman Ladislav
Hejdanek (full text of letter unavailable).

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18 January 1978
Communique on the decisions of the Czech Supreme Court about
the appeals by Vladimir Lastuvka and Ales Machacek on January 5
to 6 and by Ota Ornest, Jiri Lederer, Frantisek Pavlicek, and
Vaclav Havel on January 12 (490 words); appended was the text of
Lederer's final speech (1,900 words).

19 January 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak government about violations of
Czechoslovak labor legislation and the International Labor
Organization (ILO) Convention no. 111 forbidding discrimination
in professions and employment (1,100 words).

3 February 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public General Prosecutor complaining
about a police attack on Charter 77 members attending the
Railroad Workers' Ball in Prague on 28 January 1978 (320 words).

8 February 1978, Document No. 15
Letter to Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government
asserting the validity in Czechoslovakia of the international
covenants on human and civil rights (see entry for 23 January
1977 above) (940 words); appended was a comparative analysis of
the international covenants, the Czechoslovak Constitution, and
individual Czechoslovak laws (6,700 words).

28 February 1978
Situation report about the police action in connection with
the Railroadmen's Ball in Prague on 28 January 1978 and the
arrest of three Charter 77 signatories (840 words).

11 March 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government,
the Czech National Council, and the Czech Ministry of Justice
detailing the cases of six Czechoslovak citizens subjected to
judicial and extrajudicial harassment in connection with
Charter 77 (2,300 words).

11 March 1978
Letter to the Federal and Czech Public Prosecutors about the
unwarranted arrest of Ivan Jirous (130 words).

12 March 1978
Declaration on the conclusion of the Helsinki review meeting
in Belgrade (600 words).

5 April 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak President about growing state
persecution of citizens working for human rights in
Czechoslovakia; it was sent on the occasion of the President's
state visit to the FRG (930 words).

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6 April 1978
Communique on the resignation of Jiri Hajek as Charter 77
spokesman and the appointment of Jaroslav Sabata in his place
(60 words); appended was a biography of Sabata (160 words).

6 April 1978
Letter to the World Trade Union Congress in Prague requesting
support for Czechoslovak citizens suffering politically
motivated discrimination in their work (590 words).

24 April 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and Public General
Prosecutor, the Czech National Council, and the Czech Ministry
of Justice protesting the unlawful persecution of Gustav
Vlasaty, from Litvinov (660 words).

16 May 1978
Communique about police restrictions on the free movement of
spokesmen and on meetings of other Charter 77 signatories
(280 words).

22 May 1978, Document No. 16
Detailed analysis of remand and prison conditions in
Czechoslovakia; it was sent to the Federal Assembly, the Czech
and Slovak National Councils, and the Penological Research
Institute in Prague (11,600 words); appended were the existing
prison regulations (1,400 words).

23 May 1978, Document No. 17
List of 56 additional signatories.

29 May 1978
Letter to the Central  Committee  of the CPCS and the
Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government requesting a public
inquiry into terrorist acts by the police authorities against
nonconformist citizens (520 words).

3 June 1978
Communique about police operations against dozens of
Czechoslovak citizens on the occasion of Leonid Brezhnev's visit
to Czechoslovakia (310 words).

4 June 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public General Prosecutor requesting
the release from detention of the writers Jiri Grusa and Pavel
Roubal (80 words).

11 June 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public General Prosecutor requesting
the release from detention of the evangelical pastor Jan Simsa
(130 words).

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16 July 1978
Greetings to the Kulturfront organization in Stockholm thanking
it for organizing a demonstration against the occupation 1968
invasion of Czechoslovakia and in support of Charter 77 and
political prisoners; it was distributed jointly with the text of
the Swedish organization's appeal (60 words).

18 July 1978
Open letter to the mother and wife of Anatoly Shcharansky and
the wife of Alexander Ginzburg expressing Charter 77's
solidarity with convicted human rights defenders in the USSR
(sent jointly by Charter 77 and VONS) (290 words).

22 July 1978
Letter to the Soviet Ambassador in Prague requesting the
immediate release of Soviet human rights activists Alexander
Ginzburg, Anatoly Shcharansky, and Viktoras Piatkus and the
repeal of their sentences (210 words).

22 July 1978
Communique about the sentencing of philosopher and economist
Rudolf Bahro to eight years imprisonment in the GDR (80 words).

12 August 1978, Document No. 18
Declaration on the 10th anniversary of military intervention
in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact states (390 words).

August 1978
Declaration on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of
Czechoslovakia (issued jointly by Charter 77 and KOR)
(210 words).

August 1978
Letter of solidarity to human rights activists in Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union; it was sent by Charter 77 and KOR
from their first joint meeting on the Czechoslovak-Polish border
(710 words).

September 1978
Communique about the meeting between representatives of KOR
and a group of Charter 77 signatories; it was signed by KOR and
the Charter 77 spokesmen (140 words).

1 October 1978
Worldwide Appeal via the International Red Cross in Geneva
calling for the release of the Czechoslovak political prisoners
Miroslav Cerny, Jiri Lederer, and Jan Simsa on the grounds of
ill health (90 words); appended were the details on the state of
health of the three prisoners (770 words).

8 October 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak President requesting the immediate
release of the arrested Charter 77 spokesman Jaroslav Sabata
(360 words).

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8 October 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak President appealing for a general
amnesty on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding
of the Czechoslovak Republic (120 words).

8 October 1978, Document No. 19
Commentary on the persecution of Charter 77 signatories; the
document drew particular attention to Jan Simsa's case and was
drafted on September 30 and issued on October 8 by the two
Prague-based spokesmen after the arrest of Jaroslav Sabata.
(1,250 words).

10 October 1978, Document No. 20
List of 50 additional signatories.

13 October 1978
Open letter to the UN Secretary-General and the heads of the
Helsinki conference states about Charter 77 and the state
persecution of its signatories as well as the deteriorating
state of human rights in Czechoslovakia; it was signed jointly
by Charter 77 and VONS (1,800 words). (In Informace o
Charte 77 [Information About Charter 77], no. 13, 1978, this
text was dated 6 November 1978; the date October 13 corresponds
to a typewritten copy of the original letter bearing the
signatures of the spokesmen Marta Kubisova and Ladislav
Hejdanek.)

19 October 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak President and Public General
Prosecutor about the prosecution of citizens exercising the
right to freedom of information and expression; it gave the
details of the case of the Charter 77 signatory Jan Zmatlik
(640 words).

19 October 1978, Document No. 21
Communique addressed to Charter 77 signatories and supporters
about Charter's objectives and activities, particularly its
intention to promote public debate by issuing documents about
major issues affecting Czechoslovak society (1,500 words).

28 October 1978
Declaration on the 60th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic
(900 words).

6 November 1978
Open letter to the UN Secretary-General and heads of the
Helsinki conference states (see entry for 13 October 1978).

6 November 1978
Communique about the resignation of Marta Kubisova as a
Charter 77 spokesman and Vaclav Havel's temporary assumption of
spokesman's duties (50 words). (Issued together with Marta
Kubiosva's letter to signatories of 2 October 1978.)

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6 November 1978
Letter to an international conference in West Berlin expressing
solidarity with the East German political prisoner Rudolf Bahro;
it was signed jointly by Charter 77 and VONS (300 words).

16 November 1978
Open letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and the
Polish Sejm protesting at actions by the Czechoslovak and Polish
police to prevent a meeting of representatives of KOR and
Charter 77 (180 words). (Issued jointly by KOR and Charter 77.)

20 November 1978
Letter to the congress of the French General Confederation of
Labor (CGT) in Grenoble thanking it for its expression of
solidarity with Charter 77's efforts (170 words).

27 November 1978 (22)
Communique on the safety of nuclear power stations in
Czechoslovakia (160 words); an accompanying analysis prepared
by unidentified Czechoslovak experts was issued by Charter 77 as
a discussion document (4,200 words).

30 November 1978
Letter to Pope John Paul II congratulating him on his election
as Pope (150 words).

4 December 1978
Letter of thanks to the awards committee, in Uppsala, Sweden,
for giving the 1978 Monismanien Prize to Charter 77 (120 words).

9 December 1978
Letter to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister requesting the
lifting of permanent police surveillance on the spokesman Vaclav
Havel's home; it was signed by the Charter 77 spokesman Ladislav
Hejdanek and the signatory Jiri Dienstbier (330 words).

10 December 1978
Communique on the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly
(70 words); it was accompanied by an assessment drafted by
Jiri Hajek (2,950 words) and the text" of the declaration (1,900
words).

13 December 1978
Communique on the status of Gypsies in Czechoslovakia (470
words); it was accompanied by an analysis prepared by a group
of Charter 77 signatories as a discussion paper (5,200 words).

20 December 1978
Letter to the Central Council of Trade Unions in Prague
proposing that the principles of the Universal Declaration of
Trade Union Rights be implemented, with a view to ending
discrimination at work (1,500 words).

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21 December 1978
Letter to the French National Union of Students (UNEF) in
Paris thanking it for a letter of solidarity with Charter 77
dated 13 November 1978 (360 words).

30 December 1978
New Year message to "democratically minded citizens" of
Czechoslovakia expressing the wish that fundamental human rights
be gradually implemented in Czechoslovakia (100 words).

1979

Before 11 January 1979
Declaration about the trial of the Charter 77 spokesman Jarosla
Sabata (140 words). (Issued before the opening of his trial in
Trutnov on 11 January 1977.)

17 January 1979
Letter to Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky requesting
his intercession in favor of the imprisoned Charter 77 spokesman
Jaroslav Sabata; it was signed by the Charter 77 spokesman
Ladislav Hejdanek and by VONS and sent via the Austrian embassy
to Chancellor Kreisky during his state visit to Prague
(170 words). (Detailed documentation about the case was
enclosed with the letter but not published.)

7 February 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak government about violations of
Czechoslovak labor legislation and the ILO Convention no.111
forbidding discrimination in professions and employment.
(600 words); it was intended as a position paper after the
conference of the International Labor Organization. Appended to
the letter were the details of 17 cases of job discrimination in
connection with Charter 77.

8 February 1979
Communique about the appointment of new Charter spokesmen
(80 words); appended were biographies of Vaclav Benda, Jiri
Dienstbier, and Zdena Tominova (540 words).

16 February 1979
Communique about the decision of the regional court in Hradec
Kralove to uphold the conviction of the Charter 77 spokesman
Jaroslav Sabata (120 words).

1 March 1979
Communique announcing the establishment of a Citizens' Aid
Fund (80 words).

8 March 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly requesting that
the ordinance granting police escort vehicles unrestricted right
of way in traffic be rescinded (250 words).

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26 March 1979, Document No. 24
Communique about Czechoslovak citizens' freedom to travel
abroad (170 words); it was accompanied by a detailed analysis
entitled "Judicial Regulations Governing Foreign Travel by
Czechoslovak Citizens" and prepared jointly by a group of
Charter 77 signatories and unidentified experts as a discussion
document (10,250 words). The communique and analysis were
publicly circulated and sent to the Czechoslovak Federal
Assembly and government.

31 March 1979
Telegram to the Congress of the Italian Communist Party asking
for public solidarity with Jaroslav Sabata, who faced the
prospect of an increased prison term (70 words). (In Informace
o Charte 77, no. 5, 1978, this telegram was wrongly dated 31
January 1979.)

9 April 1979
Letter to the editors of the bulletin Infomace o Charte 77
pledging the spokesmen's support and solidarity (60 words).

21 April 1979, Document No. 25
List of 41 additional signatories.

28 April 1979
Communique about the continuing discussion on the safety of
nuclear power stations in Czechoslovakia (130 words); appended
was a letter from Frantisek Janouch, who lives in Stockholm, his
views on Charter 77 Document No. 22 of 27 November 1978
(1,700 words).

5 May 1979
Communique about a meeting in Prague on 4 May 1979 between the
Charter 77 spokesmen and members of a delegation of the French
Communist Party (100 words).

5 May 1979
Letter to the Congress of the French Communist Party appealing
for public solidarity with the imprisoned Czechoslovak citizens
Jaroslav Sabata, Josef Danisz, and Jiri Lederer as well as with
the Pole Ladislav Lis, who was then facing prosecution
(380 words).

12 May 1979
Letter to the writer Stefan Heym in the GDR expressing
solidarity with him in the face of harassment because of the
publication of his works abroad.

27 May 1979, Document No. 26
Communique about difficulties facing consumers in Czechoslovakia
(280 words); it was accompanied by a detailed analysis
entitled "Themes on Consumption," which was drafted by a group
of unidentified authors and issued by Charter 77 as a discussion
document (6,800 words).

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30 May 1979
Communique about extensive police operations against VONS
members; it was signed by the spokesman Zdena Tominova and by
VONS (240 words).

31 May 1979
Declaration about the outcome of the police operations against
VONS and Charter 77 (490 words).

5 June 1979
Communique about the temporary assumption of spokesmen's
duties by Jiri Hajek and Ladislav Hejdanek after the arrest of
Charter 77 spokesmen Vaclav Benda and Jiri Dienstbier
(90 words).

19 June 1979
Letter to the Litomerice town council protesting at plans to
demolish a house in which Charter 77 signatories were living
(490 words).

25 June 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak President informing him about
VONS's activities and demanding a halt to the prosecution of
11 VONS members (560 words).

25 June 1979
Letter to the Chairman of US Helsinki Watch in New York
accepting an offer by that group of cooperation with Charter 77
(280 words).

13 August 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General concerning
the case of Petr Cibulka, at that time in Plzen prison and whose
life was in danger; it was issued jointly by Charter 77 and VONS
(480 words).

27 August 1979
Declaration acknowledging widespread expressions of solidarity
with arrested VONS members and support for the activities of
Charter 77 and VONS (180 words).

8 October 1979, Document no. 27
List of 39 additional signatories.

15 October 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government and
to the Czech Ministry of Justice setting out Charter 77's
position on the forthcoming trial of six Charter signatories
belonging to VONS (1,100 words).

(October 1979)
Telegram to the participants in a week-long hunger strike in
Warsaw thanking them for their effective expression of
solidarity with political prisoners in Czechoslovakia and Poland
(30 words).

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16 October 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government and
to the Czech National Council, with a copy to the Austrian
government, protesting at the decision of the Czech Ministry of
the Interior to deprive the writer Pavel Kohout of Czechoslovak
citizenship and prevent him and his wife from returning to
Czechoslovakia (680 words).

21 October 1979
Declaration on the forthcoming trial of six Charter 77
signatories belonging to VONS issued jointly by Charter 77,
VONS, and KOR (100 words).

24 October 1979
Letter to the Czechoslovak Supreme Court expressing Charter's
attitude to the trial of VONS members and to the court judgments
(310 words).

October 1979
Statement about violations of Czechoslovak labor legislation
and of the International Convention on Discrimination in
Profession and Employment issued to mark the opening of
discussion of the question by the ILO (1,600 words).

6 November 1979
Letter to Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents replying
to a letter from them to human rights activists in Poland and
Czechoslovakia (130 words).

12 November 1979
Communique publicizing Zdenek Jicinsky's analysis of the trial
of six Charter signatories and his letter to the Czechoslovak
Federal Assembly (40 words); appended were the letter dated
1 November 1979 (190 words) and analysis (2,350 words).

12 November 1979
Communique about the average monthly spending of a family in
Czechoslovakia before and after the price increases of July 1979
(30 words); it was accompanied by an analysis prepared by an
unnamed group of non-Charter members and issued by the spokesmen
as a supplement to Document No. 26 of 27 May 1979 (500 words of
text and 5 pages of tables).

14 November 1979
Open letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General and
Military Procurator, with a copy sent to the editorial board of
Rude Pravo, about the wave of police violence and the media's
slander campaign in connection with the trial of VONS members
(1,400 words).

6 December 1979
Obituary of Frantisek Kriegel (600 words).

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(December 1979)
Communique about harassment during the funeral of Frantisek
Kriegel (60 words).

22 December 1979
Communique about the release of four VONS members in a
"Christmas Message" (80 words).

1980

1 January 1980
Communique about the transfer of the spokesmen's duties to
Marie Hromadkova and Milos Rejchrt (40 words) and accompanied by
their biographies (220 words).

28 January 1980
Letter to the Soviet Embassy in Prague protesting the exiling
of Andrei Sakharov (130 words).

1 February 1980
Declaration about Charter 77's first three years, including
information about the joint spokesmen (1,290 words).

(Before 21 February 1980)
Letter to Czechoslovak Supreme Court requesting a review of
the trial proceedings in the case of the attorney Josef Danisz,
a Charter 77 signatory (640 words).

4 March 1980
Communique (40 words) presenting an accompanying analysis of
the law governing the National Security Corps, a study carried
out by the attorney Josef Danisz (4,100 words). (The National
Security Corps [SNB] is the blanket title for all police units
in Czechoslovakia. Public Security [VB] is the name for the
uniformed police force; and State Security [StB] denotes the
political [secret] police, which assures the "internal security"
of the state.)

11 March 1980
Communique about police harassment of the participants at a
private philosophy lecture in Prague (160 words).

19 March 1980
Communique about conditions in Plzen-Bory prison (200 words)
report drafted by unnamed former prisoners and made
public by Charter 77 (1,570 words).

30 March 1980
Communique (80 words) presenting an accompanying analysis of
Paragraph 109 of the Czechoslovak Criminal Code (on "leaving the
country without permission") and of the difficulties of
Czechoslovak citizens wanting to travel abroad (2,700 words).

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18 April 1980
Telegram sending greetings to a trade union conference in Paris
(40 words).

23 April 1980
Letter to the Rector of Charles University in Prague informing
him about police harassment of participants in a private
philosophy lecture (740 words).

26 April 1980
Communique about the composition and work of the Charter 77
spokesmen's collective (310 words).

(Between 16 and 27 April 1980)
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly complaining about
illegal entry, restrictions on personal freedom, and physical
attacks by the police (120 words); appended were three letters
documenting police violence (2,500 words).

5 May 1980
Communique (280 words) presenting an accompanying Charter 77
analysis of the problems of pensioners, the poorest section of
Czechoslovak society (1,830 words).

15 May 1980
Communique (40 words) and statement on professional and
employment discrimination in Czechoslovakia issued after
Charter 77 had received the ILO committee's report, which had
the backing of the Brussels-based World Confederation of Labor
(WCL) and International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU) (1,500 words).

26 May 1980
Letter to the Paris-based International Human Rights Federation
(FIDH) about the case of the political prisoner Petr Cibulka,
signed jointly by Charter 77 and VONS (520 words).

9 June 1980, Document No. 28
Letter to the UN Secretary-General with a copy to the UNESCO
Director General about violations of the right to education and
participation in cultural life in Czechoslovakia (460 words).

9 June 1980
Six supplementary reports on police harassment of participants
at private philosophy lectures.

9 June 1980 (28)
List of 48 additional signatories.

20 June 1980
Declaration about the arrest of Charter 77 spokesman Rudolf
Battek (220 words).

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20 June 1980
Letter of greetings to a labor union conference in Rome
(80 words).

28 June 1980
Communique presenting an appeal to the Czechoslovak public
about the debate over the Madrid follow-up meeting of the
Helsinki signatory states (130 words); appended were the text of
Principle VII of the Final Act and a text by the spokesmen as a
discussion paper (1,530 words).

29 June 1980
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General requesting
that the criminal charges against Rudolf Battek be dropped
(160 words).

30 July 1980
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General requesting
that the case of arrested Charter 77 signatory Karel Soukup be
investigated (160 words).

August 1980
Message to a meeting (location unspecified) in support of the
Czechoslovak people thanking the participants for their
solidarity with the human rights struggle (180 words).

August 1980
Message to the combined strike committee at the Lenin
Shipyards in Gdansk with a copy to the Polish Embassy in Prague
saying that Charter 77's aims were identical to the demands of
the striking Polish workers (90 words).

17 September 1980
Letter to the Czechoslovak President suggesting ways in which
Czechoslovakia could assure the success of the Madrid follow-up
conference by making improvements in the field of human rights
(1,000 words).

28 September 1980
Letter to the Czechoslovak President about police harassment
of Charter 77 signatories and VONS members (420 words).

13 October 1980
Letter to Amnesty International in London appealing for
assistance in the case of the political prisoner Rudolf Battek
(660 words).

30 October 1980
Letter to the Congress of the Socialist International in
Madrid in response to an invitation for Charter 77
representatives to attend its meeting as observers (410 words).

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9 November 1980
Letter to Amnesty International in London giving additional
facts about the case of Rudolf Battek (240 words).

10 November 1980
Telegram to the Madrid follow-up meeting of the Helsinki
signatory states sending best wishes for the opening of the
talks (40 words).

8 December 1980
Letter to the editorial board of Rude Pravo in Prague voicing
concern over an article about events in Poland (180 words).

14 December 1980
Letter to the Czechoslovak President criticizing the
Czechoslovak media's reporting of events in Poland and voicing
concern about the transfer of Czechoslovak military units to the
Polish border (470 words).

23 December 1980
Letter to the Military Procurator General protesting against
police actions in Anna Sabatova's apartment and the use of
violence during interrogations of Vaclav Maly; countersigned by
Anna Sabatova on behalf of VONS (350 words).

1981

13 January 1981
Communique on the transfer of spokesmen's duties to Vaclav
Maly and Bedrich Placak and accompanied by their biographies
(430 words).

5 February 1981
Declaration about the case of the political prisoner Rudolf
Battek, including news of a petition being organized for his
release and the start of a hunger strike by his wife; copies
were sent to the Czechoslovak President, Federal Assembly, and
Ceteka (560 words).

10 February 1981
Letter to the Polish Committee for Self-Defense (KOR)
delivered to Jacek Kuron and expressing Charter 77's solidarity
with the group (100 words).

17 February 1981
Communique (40 words) presenting an accompanying text drafted
by a group of Charter 77 signatories suggesting ways of
strengthening the European ideal and designed as a contribution
to the Madrid follow-up meeting of the Helsinki signatory states
(730 words).

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21 February 1981
Communique announcing the publication of "The Case of Rudolf
Battek," a collection of documents and personal testimony
(40 words).

22 February 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak President renewing Charter 77's
appeal that Czechoslovakia help make the Madrid follow-up
meeting a success by improving the human and civil rights
situation (670 words).

26 March 1981
Letter (100 words) to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social
Affairs with a copy to the Central Council of Trade Unions,
criticizing the arguments used by the Czechoslovak delegate to
the ILO to refute a complaint about discriminatory practices in
professions and employment in Czechoslovak and enclosing an
analysis (4,300 words) of this situation by Charter 77
signatories to contribute to the discussion.

9 April 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak President about police intimidation
of dozens of Charter 77 signatories on 1 and 2 April 1981
(320 words).

20 April 1981
Communique reporting demands from home and abroad for the
release of Rudolf Battek and solidarity actions organized in his
support (160 words).

27 April 1981, Document No. 29
List of 44 additional signatories.

7 May 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and Prime Minister
and to the Czech National Council about police operations
against signatories and supporters of Charter 77 (300 words).

7 May 1981
Letter of greeting to Andrei Sakharov on his 60th birthday
(180 words).

12 May 1981
Communique (370 words) announcing the release of an analysis
(5,200 words) of the state of the environment in Czechoslovakia,
drafted by a group of signatories and entitled "Report on the
State of the Environment."

15 May 1981
Communique about the police operations and arrests in Prague,
Brno, and Bratislava between May 6 and 12 connected with the
detention of two French citizens on the Czechoslovak border on
April 27 (200 words).

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18 May 1981
Letter of greeting to Pope John Paul II on his 61st birthday,
wishing him a speedy recovery following the attempt on his life
(180 words).

11 June 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly rebutting
allegations about Charter 77's involvement with so-called
"diversionary" and "espionage" centers abroad and demanding the
establishment of a parliamentary committee of inquiry
(560 words). (See communique of 15 May 1981.)

15 July 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly informing it of
the growing persecution of certain groups of citizens since
June 1980 (210 words).

(between 27 July and 27 August 1981)
Letter to the French President requesting his intercession on
behalf of the political prisoner Rudolf Battek (620 words).

1 October 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak President, the Federal Assembly,
government, and the Chief Public Prosecutor appealing for a halt
to the repression of civic initiatives and independent literary
activity, and for the release of those unjustly prosecuted
(120 words).

16 November 1981
Declaration of Charter 77's attitude toward the West European
peace movement (540 words).

2 December 1981
Letter to the Czechoslovak President requesting an amnesty for
those imprisoned for involvement in civil rights work or
religious or independent cultural activities (450 words).

4 December 1981
Letter to the Soviet Embassy in Prague affirming Charter 77's
solidarity with Andrei Sakharov and calling for the fulfillment
of the demands for which he had started a hunger strike
(180 words).

1982

7 January 1982, Document No. 1/82
Communique (70 words) about the appointment of new Charter 77
spokesmen and news of additions to the group of spokesmen,
together with biographies (470 words) of Ladislav Lis, Anna
Marvanova, and Radim Palous.
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7 January 1982, Document No. 2/82
Communique about Charter 77's attitude toward the declaration
of martial law in Poland (140 words).

7 January 1982, Document No. 3/82
Declaration about Charter 77's first five years (2,150 words).

30 January 1982, Document No. 5/82
Declaration endorsing the international actions of solidarity
with the Polish people (60 words).

10 February 1982, Document No. 4/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly requesting a
review of penal convictions and arrests in which the
Czechoslovak Criminal Code had been invoked in violation of the
international covenants on human and civil rights (420 words).

15 February 1982, Document No. 6/82
Statement about price increases on basic foodstuffs and the
general economic situation in Czechoslovakia (1,460 words).
Appended was a paper entitled "Information and Queries About
Certain Economic Questions Related to the Rise in Food Prices,"
prepared by unidentified Charter 77 signatories with copies sent
by the spokesmen to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and the
Congress of Czechoslovak Trade Unions being held in Prague.

3 March 1982, Document No. 7/82
Letter (300 words) to the Congress of the Czech and Slovak
Writers' Unions, drawing attention to discrimination against
writers in Czechoslovakia. Enclosed is a list of 230 Czech
authors whose works were subjected to a partial or total
publishing ban.

3 March 1982, Document No. 8/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak government, making proposals for
ensuring freedom of conviction and religious belief and
designated as a discussion paper for the Madrid follow-up
meeting of the Helsinki signatory states (580 words).

4 March 1982, Document No. 9/82
Message to the Paris-based Jan Palach Prize committee [the
International Committee for the Support of Charter 77 in
Czechoslovakia] about awarding the 1981 Prize to Vaclav Havel
(170 words).

5 March 1982, Document No. 10/82
List of a further 36 signatories.

10 March 1982, Document No. 11/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak President, Federal Assembly, and
government, and the Czech Ministry of Culture, with copies to
Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Tomasek, and the Pacem in Terris
association of priests, protesting the violation of religious
rights and freedoms, particularly in the case of the Catholic
Church (1,760 words).

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22 March 1982, Document No. 12/82
Letter to the Embassy of the Netherlands in Prague expressing
condolences on the violent deaths of four journalists in El
Salvador (90 words).

29 March 1982, Document No. 13/82
Open letter to peace movements about threats to world peace
(630 words).

5 April 1982, Document No. 14/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly, the Public
Prosecutor General, and the Supreme Court about discrepancies
between the provisions of the Czechoslovak Criminal Code and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(1,660 words).

6 April 1982, Document No. 15/82
Declaration sent to the Czechoslovak Press Agency repudiating
the forged "Open Letter from Charter 77 to the 10th Trade Union
Congress" (270 words). 

14 April 1982, Document No. 16/82
List of Charter 77 documents issued since the beginning of
1982.

21 April 1982, Document No. 18/82
Letter of solidarity to the independent peace movement in the
GDR (180 words).

3 May 1982, Document No. 19/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak President, with copies to the
Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and the Public Prosecutor General,
notifying them about the use of terror, blackmail, and
intimidation against Charter 77 supporters and their families
and friends (820 words).

17 May 1982, Document No. 17/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak government and the Central Council 
of Trade Unions, with copies to the Prague-based WFTU and the
ICFTU in Brussels, setting out Charter 77's position on
Czechoslovakia's violation of the ILO Convention no.111
forbidding discrimination in professions and employment
(2,770 words).

1 June 1982, Document No. 20/82
Analysis of primary and secondary education in Czechoslovakia,
addressed "to the Czechoslovak public" and sent to the Czech and
Slovak Ministries of Education and the office of the
Czechoslovak Prime Minister (5,850 words).

21 June 1982, Document No. 22/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly requesting an
investigation of conditions in Czechoslovak prisons (930 words).

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23 June 1982, Document No. 21/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General, with
copies to the District Court in Chomutov, concerning the
prosecution of a group of people over the publication of an
unofficial fine arts magazine (330 words).

8 July 1982, Document No. 23/82
Letter (150 words) to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and
Supreme Court, Deputy Prime Minister Lucan, and the Director of
the Czech government's Secretariat for Church Affairs about the
use of Paragraph 178 of the Criminal Code ("obstruction of the
state supervision of Churches") to violate religious rights and
freedoms in Czechoslovakia; and a detailed analysis of
religious persecution in Czechoslovakia (3,200 words) prepared
in the Slovak language by unidentified authors and released by
Charter 77.

10 August 1982, Document No. 26/82
Letter (1,070 words) to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister and
several Czechoslovak institutions on the state of academic
research in Czechoslovakia, together with an analysis
(3,400 words) by a group of Charter 77 signatories and released
by the spokesmen.

11 August 1982, Document No. 24/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General about the
convictions resulting from the publication of the unofficial
fine arts magazine Vokno (1,050 words).

17 August 1982, Document No. 27/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government on
the 14th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of
Czechoslovakia (670 words).

27 August 1982, Document No. 25/82
Open letter about peace and peace movements to the Dutch
Inter-Church Peace Council (IKV) (1,200 words).

30 August 1982, Document No. 28/82
Declaration on the second anniversary of the Gdansk Agreements
(270 words).

22 October 1982, Document No. 29/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak government, with suggestions of how
the Czechoslovak government could contribute to the success of
the Madrid talks of the Helsinki signatory states (1,200 words).

9 November 1982, Document No. 30/82
Letter to the Polish Embassy and WFTU in Prague, expressing
concern about the dissolution of Solidarity in Poland (sent on
the second anniversary of the legislation legalizing the
independent Polish trade unions) (320 words).

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10 November 1982, Document No. 31/82
Letter to Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, requesting his
intercession on behalf of political prisoners in Czechoslovakia
(sent prior to Husak's state visit to Austria) (190 words).

25 November 1982, Document No. 32/82
Letter to the editors of L'Alternative (Paris), notifying
them that an article they had published under the title
"Charter 77's Self-Criticism" did not reflect Charter 77's views
(170 words).

27 November 1982, Document No. 33/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak President in connection with the
30th anniversary of the show trials of the 1950s (830 words).

3 December 1982, Document No. 34/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly complaining that
no official institution had replied to Charter 77's
communications from February to August 1982 (600 words).

7 December 1982, Document No. 35/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak President requesting the release of
political prisoners (210 words).

22 December 1982, Document No. 36/82
Open letter to Billy Graham in the United States, concerning
the misuse of Dr. Graham's statements by the Czechoslovak mass
media (480 words).

28 December 1982, Document No. 37/82
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General informing
him about a misinterpretation of certain paragraphs of the Penal
code with regard to the case of Miklos Duray (190 words).

December 1982, Document No. 38/82
A review of Charter 77 documents published during 1982.

1983

9 January 1983, Document No. 1/83
Communique (90 words) announcing that Jan Kozlik was taking
over the duties of spokesman following the arrest of Ladislav
Lis; issued along with biographical details (70 words).

10 January 1983, Document No. 2/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior about the
arrest of Charter 77 spokesman Ladislav Lis (500 words).

10 January 1983, Document No. 3/83
Letter to the Secretary of State for Church Affairs in Prague
recalling Charter 77's earlier communication about the violation
of religious freedom and the imprisonment of several clergymen
(180 words).

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22 January 1983, Document No. 4/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak government and Prime Minister with
copies to the Federal Office of Statistics and the Czechoslovak
Press Agency about ominous trends in the Czechoslovak economy in
1981 and 1982 and the need for a public discussion about its
causes (400 words). Appended was a paper discussing the
economic situation in Czechoslovakia (2,100 words).

4 February 1983, Document No. 5/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President urgently requesting that
the gravely ill Vaclav Havel be released from prison
(100 words).

7 February 1983, Document No. 6/83
Communique (30 words) announcing that Marie Rut Krizkova was
taking over spokesmen's duties from Radim Palous; issued
together with biographical details (100 words).

13 March 1983, Document No. 7/83
List of further 37 signatories.

31 March 1983, Document No. 8/83
Letter to the Socialist International, thanking it for an
invitation to its congress and for its expressions of solidarity
(150 words).

11 April 1983, Document No. 11/83
Letter replying to questions about the alleged participation
of Charter 77 representatives in a demonstration by the West
German Greens Party (40 words).

30 April 1983, Document No. 9/83
Letter to the Secretariat of the Second European Nuclear
Disarmament Convention in West Berlin, informing delegates about
Charter 77's views on questions of peace and disarmament
(720 words).

30 April 1983, Document No. 10/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister criticizing the mass
media's failure to give sufficient coverage to political and
economic bribery and corruption (300 words).

3 May 1983, Document No. 12/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President about police harassment
of members of the Franciscan Order in March 1983 and systematic
state persecution of religious orders (1,100 words).

4 May 1983, Document No. 13/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General about the
case of Charter 77 spokesman Ladislav Lis, who had been sent
back to prison to await further proceedings (250 words).

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14 May 1983, Document No. 14/33
Letter to the Paris headquarters of PEN, the international
writers' organization, telling about the confiscation of
literary and scholarly works in Czechoslovakia on the pretext of
criminal activity (copies sent to the PEN Clubs in the USA and
FRG, as well as to the Czech Ministry of Culture and the Czech
Writers' Union) (1,000 words). Appended were details about the
works confiscated and the court's justification for doing so
(300 book titles and 1,000 words of text).

16 May 1983, Document No. 15/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly with a copy to the
Czech Women's Union, warning that proposed revisions to the law
on the family could endanger the rights of parents and children
(550 words).

17 May 1983, Document No. 16/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President about the outcome of the
trial of Jaromir Savrda and Vladimir Liberda (520 words).

22 May 1983, Document No. 17/83
Letter to UNITA, an antigovernment organization in Angola,
protesting its kidnapping of a group of Czechoslovak citizens
(70 words).

24 May 1983, Document No. 18/83
Letter to the ILO about the positive effects of criticizing
discriminatory practices in professions and employment in
Czechoslovakia and informing it of continuing discrimination in
this area (800 words).

30 May 1983, Document No. 19/83
Letter to the steering committee of the Prague World Assembly
for Peace and Life Against Nuclear War ("World Assembly"),
asserting Charter 77's right to full participation in the
gathering (660 words).

12 June 1983, Document No. 21/831
Letter to the chairman of the steering committee of the World
Assembly about police intimidation and bureaucratic harassment
intended to prevent Charter 77's participation in the assembly
(650 words).

14 June 1983, Document No. 22/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President, requesting an amnesty
for Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned or being prosecuted for
activities related to the defense of human rights, sent in
conjunction with the World Assembly (170 words).

14 June 1983, Document No. 23/83
An unpublished letter to the Austrian Chancellor, the contents
of which are still unknown.

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15 June 1983, Document No. 20/83
Message to the World Assembly, giving Charter 77's views on
peace and peace movements (1,420 words). Enclosed was an
appendix entitled "Charter 77 and Peace," which contained the
relevant Charter 77 documents from 1982, in full or part, and
contributions from the Jiri Hajek, Ladislav Hejdanek, Jakub
S. Trojan, Milan Simecka, Milos Rejchrt, Jiri Dienstbier, Radim
Palous, Jaroslav Sabata, and Josef Zverina).

30 June 1983, Document No. 24/83
Communique about meetings and discussions between Charter 77
signatories and foreign participants of the World Assembly in
Prague, reporting police interference and the exclusion of
Charter 77 from participating in the assembly (1,700 words).
[N.B.: This document also includes a joint statement by
Charter 77 and the French peace organization CODENE and a
communique about the police's dispersing a meeting between
Charter 77 signatories and representatives of several Western
political organizations and citizens' groups on 23 June 1983.]

30 June 1983, Document No. 25/83
List of Charter 77 documents published in the first half of
1983.

18 July 1983, Document No. 27/83
Telegram to the District Court in Ceska Lipa, requesting
tickets for the Charter 77 spokesman to attend the trial of
Ladislav Lis (50 words).

19 July 1983, Document No. 26/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak government, with copies to the
Federal Assembly and the North Bohemian Regional National
Council, about the ecological, health, and social problems of
the North Bohemian region (1,300 words). Appended was a
documentation of police and judicial persecution of
nonconformist citizens in the region from 1977 through 1981
(2,000 words).

25 July 1983, Document No. 28/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and Supreme Court
complaining about the violation of court procedures in the trial
of Ladislav Lis and in other political trials (200 words).

26 July 1983, Document No. 29/83
Communique about an invitation from French peace organizations
to attend a peace conference in Larzac, France (300 words).

15 August 1983, Document No. 30/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly concerning the
15th anniversary of the military intervention in Czechoslovakia
(560 words).

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31 August 1983, Document No. 31/83
Analysis of state regulations, bans, and limitations on popular
(rock) music in Czechoslovakia; sent to the Central Committee of
the Czechoslovak Communist Party, the Czechoslovak Federal
Assembly, the Czech Ministry of Culture, and the Czech
Musicians' Union (7,600 words).

5 September 1983, Document No. 32/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Public Prosecutor General requesting
that he intervene on behalf of the imprisoned writer Jaromir
Savrda, then in a grave state of health (500 words).

5 September 1983, Document No. 33/83
Declaration about the crash of the South Korean airliner on
1 September 1983 (90 words). [N.b.: This document was issued
before it was determined that the plane had been shot down by
the Soviet air force.]

28 September 1983, Document No. 34/83
Letter to the Polish Prime Minister protesting against the
planned trials of representatives of KOR (320 words).

5 October 1983, Document No. 35/83
Letter to Lech Walesa in Gdansk, congratulating him on being
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1983 (180 words).

24 October 1983, Document No. 37/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President on the 65th anniversary
of the creation of an independent Czechoslovak state, requesting
an amnesty for citizens convicted or being prosecuted for
so-called "crimes against the republic" (520 words).

November 1983, Document No. 38/83
Open letter to West European peace movements, informing them
about the situation of the Charter and its views of the
Czechoslovak government's decision to allow the stationing of
nuclear missiles on Czechoslovak territory (300 words).

14 November 1983, Document No. 39/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President, the Chairman of the
Federal Assembly, the Prime Minister, and the Public Prosecutor
General, expressing Charter 77's attitude to the concluding
document of the Madrid CSCE follow-up meeting and suggesting
ways to implement the document's principles (1,400 words).

12 December 1983, Document No. 36/83
Letter (770 words) to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister, enclosing
a detailed analysis (10,000 words) of pollution of the
environment in Czechoslovakia, originally produced by the
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences under the title "Analysis of
the Ecological Situation of the CSSR" and released by
Charter 77.

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20 December 1983, Document No. 40/83
Letter to the Chairman of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly,
listing suggestions, reports, and complaints sent by Charter 77
to Czechoslovak state authorities in the course of 1983 and to
which it had received no reply (630 words).

27 December 1983, Document No. 41/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak President, with copies to the
Ministry of Education and local education authorities, analyzing
a case of discrimination against two young people whose right to
education was being denied because of their parents' political
attitudes (1,200 words).

30 December 1983, Document No. 42/83
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly, with copies to
the Czech Ministry of Health, analyzing data about the
increasing use of narcotics in Czechoslovakia and criticizing
the failure to make this information public (1,920 words).

30 December 1983, Document No. 43/83
Communique (30 words) announcing the release of a text by
unidentified authors analyzing the human rights provisions of
the concluding document of the Madrid CSCE follow-up meeting,
adopted in September 1983 (4,300 words).

31 December 1983, Document No. 44/83
Review of Charter 77 documents issued in the second half of
1983

1984

7 January 1984, Document No.1/84
Communique about the new Charter 77 spokesmen: Vaclav Benda,
Jiri Ruml, and Jana Sternova (40 words); it was accompanied by
their biographies (570 words).

20 January 1984, Document No. 2/84
Letter to the Paris-based International Committee for the
Support of Charter 77, expressing appreciation for the award of
the 1983 Jan Palach Prize to Informace o Charte 77 (130 words).

7 February 1984, Document No. 3/84
List of 25 additional signatories.

21 February 1984, Document No. 4/84
Letter to the UN Secretary-General about the aims and activities
of Charter 77; it was sent on the occasion of his visit to
Prague (430 words).

4 March 1984, Document No. 5/84
Communique about a working symposium in Prague attended by a
group of Charter 77 signatories together with representatives of
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Council (IKV); it was signed by Charter 77 spokesmen and the
General Secretaries of CODENE and IKV (210 words).

12 March 1984, Document No. 6/84
Communique (270 words) appealing for a discussion of the
situation and trends in the Czechoslovak economy; it was
accompanied by an analytical article by Vladimir Kadlec entitled
"Dynamism or Stagnation?" as a contribution to the debate
(4,900 words).

2 April 1984, Document No. 7/84
Commentary on the new education bill sent to the Czechoslovak
Federal Assembly and Prime Minister (2,000 words).

6 April 1984, Document No. 8/84
Letter to the Czechoslovak President criticizing the law on
"protective surveillance" (1,570 words); appended was a document
expressing expert legal opinion entitled "Re: the Law on
Protective Surveillance" (1,180 words).

1 May 1984, Document No. 9/84
Open letter to the British antinuclear movements CND and END
arguing that certain passages of an open letter from the two
organizations distorted Charter 77's views on peace and
disarmament (1,270 words).

7 May 1984, Document No. 10/84
Letter to the Czechoslovak government and ILO criticizing the
system of selecting personnel according to political criteria
(nomenklatura) as a form of unfair discrimination (1,500 words).

20 May 1984, Document No. 11/84
Analysis entitled "The Right to History" about the state of
official historiography in Czechoslovakia; it was submitted to
the Presidium of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
(4,000 words).

17 June 1984, Document No. 12/84
Letter to the Chairman of the Czechoslovak Committee for
European Security asserting Charter 77's right to attend the
international seminar planned by the committee and setting out
the Charter's views on questions of European security
(1,280 words).

30 June 1984, Document No. 13/84
Open letter about current problems of European peace and
disarmament sent to the Third European Nuclear Disarmament
Convention in Perugia (2,200 words).

15 August 1984, Document No. 14/84
Letter to the National Council and Ministry of Health about
the Czechoslovak health service (650 words); enclosed was a
detailed analysis entitled "Health Is Part of the Right to
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doctors and other health service employees (5,860 words plus 3
pages of tables and diagrams).

19 August 1984, Document No. 15/84
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and Prime Minster
on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the military
intervention in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact states
informing them of police action to prevent Charter 77
commemorating the anniversary (450 words).

26 September 1984, Document No. 16/84
Communique (340 words) about the debate around Charter 77
Document No. 11/84, "The Right to History"; appended was a
contribution by four historians who have signed Charter 77
(810 words).

11 October 1984, Document No. 17/84
Letter to the poet Jaroslav Seifert and the Swedish Royal
Academy of Sciences about the awarding of the 1984 Nobel Prize
for Literature to Seifert (210 words).

2 November 1984, Document No. 18/84
Letter to the Czechoslovak President and the Bureau of the
Socialist International about the case of the imprisoned
Charter 77 spokesman Rudolf Battek; it was sent jointly by
Charter 77 and VONS to mark Battek's 60th birthday (340 words);
appended was a biography of Battek (800 words).

2 November 1984, Document No. 19/84
Open letter to Polish friends of Charter 77 about the kidnapping
and murder of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko (320 words).

1 December 1984, Document No. 20/84
Analysis entitled "The Right to Information" about the
systematic violation of the right to seek, receive, and disseminate
information in Czechoslovakia (2,560 words).

12 December 1984, Document No. 21/84
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and the Secretariat
for Church Affairs about the persecution of religious orders in
Czechoslovakia (560 words); enclosed was a survey entitled
"Concerning the Situation of Orders in Czechoslovakia" and
drafted by a group of Czechoslovak believers on the initiative
of Charter 77 (4,220 words).

23 December 1984, Document No. 22/84
Communique about police actions against certain Charter 77
signatories during the visit to Prague by the West German
Foreign Minister (170 words).

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1985

6 January 1985, Document No. 1/85
Communique announcing the three new spokesmen: Jiri Dienstbier,
Eva Kanturkova, and Petruska Sustrova (30 words); it was
accompanied by their biographies (600 words).

6 January 1985, Document No. 2/85
Analysis of Charter 77's first eight years of existence
(5,450 words); appended was the Declaration of Charter 77 of 1
January 1977.

19 January 1985, Document No. 3/85
Letter to the Paris-based International Committee for the
Support of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia welcoming its award of
the 1984 Jan Palach Prize to the philosopher Ladislav Hejdanek
(170 words).

14 February 1985, Document No. 4/85
Communique about the debate around Document No. 11/84 ("The
Right to History") and No. 14/84 (about the Czechoslovak health
service) (230 words).

11 March 1985, Document No. 5/85
Communique announcing the release of the "Prague Appeal": a
statement of views by a group of Charter 77 signatories about
current issues of European peace and disarmament, which was
drafted as a letter to the Fourth European Nuclear Disarmament
Convention (in Amsterdam from 3-6 June 1985) and signed by 45
Charter 77 signatories (800 words).

12 March 1985, Document No. 6/85
Open letter to the Czechoslovak President complaining about
police harassment of participants at a private film show
(380 words).

20 March 1985, Document No. 7/85
Declaration addressed to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and
government proposing a review of all Czechoslovak legislation
with a view to the consistent implementation of the
international covenants on human and civil rights (660 words);
appended were specific suggestions based on a comparative
analysis of both international covenants and the Czechoslovak
Constitution as well as of individual Czechoslovak laws
(7,800 words). (These suggestions, which were an updated
version of the appendix to Document No. 15 [8 February 1978],
were drafted just prior to a meeting of experts in Ottowa on
questions of human rights as part of the CSCE process.)

25 March 1985, Document No. 8/85
Communique to mark the 80th birthday of the Czech writer
Vaclav Cerny (220 words) and a letter of congratulations to
him (460 words).

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26 April 1985, Document No. 9/85
Declaration (sent to the Czechoslovak President and Prime
Minister) marking the 40th anniversary of the end of World
War II and also criticizing aspects of Czechoslovak society
(1,100 words).

20 May 1985, Document No. 10/85
List of 28 new signatories.

22 May 1985, Document No. 11/85
Letter to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the ILO
about occupational discrimination in Czechoslovakia resulting
from the cadre policy of the CPCS (600 words); appended was an
analysis of the CPCS Central Committee's decision of 6 November
1970 on "cadre and personnel activity" (1,900 words).

28 May 1985, Document No. 12/85
Letter to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister notifying him of
police surveillance of Charter 77 signatories during visits by
Western politicians to Czechoslovakia (610 words).

30 May 1985, Document No. 13/85
Communique and detailed survey (40 and 1,200 words,
respectively), the latter obtained by Charter 77 from an undisclosed
source, on the ecological dangers of a planned motorcycle racing
circuit in Brno.

3 June 1985, Document No. 14/85
Communique about the talks (and related police harassment)
between Charter 77 signatories and members of the party
accompanying the French Foreign Minister on his visit to Prague.
(560 words).

10 June 1985, Document No. 15/85
Communique announcing the second volume of the samizdat series
"Views on Czech History" and comprising the latest contributions
to the debate around Document No. 11/84 ("The Right to History")
(330 words).

20 June 1985, Document No. 16/85
Telegram of congratulations to Erika Weinzierl, Chairman of
the Austrian Committee of Solidarity with Czechoslovakia, on her
60th birthday (40 words).

29 June 1985, Document No. 17/85
Open letter to Wladyslav Frasyniuk, Adam Michnik, and Bogdan
Lis, activists of the banned Polish trade union organization
Solidarity, assuring them of Charter 77's support following
their conviction by a Polish court (210 words).

1 July 1985, Document No. 18/85
Communique about international reactions to the text of the
"Prague Appeal" (see Document No. 5/85) (290 words).

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23 July 1985, Document No. 19/85
Declaration on the 10th anniversary of the signing of the
Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe; it was sent to the Czechoslovak President, Federal
Assembly, government, and to the Czechoslovak Committee for
European Security (940 words).

20 August 1985, Document No. 20/85
Declaration on the 17th anniversary of the military
intervention in Czechoslovakia (1,200 words).

3 September 1985, Document No. 21/85
Letter to Bishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa condemning the
policy of apartheid in that country (180 words).

13 September 1985, Document No. 22/85
Letter to the Czechoslovak government notifying it of an
appeal to the Czechoslovak public from the Hungarian citizens'
campaign group the Danube Circle about the protection of nature
in the Danube basin (90 words); it was accompanied by a report
on the effects that the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric power
project would have on the Rye Island area (1,000 words).

22 September 1985, Document No. 23/85
Communique to mark the poet Jaroslav Seifert's 80th birthday
(30 words) and a letter of congratulations to him (230 words).

25 September 1985, Document No. 24/85
Declaration addressed to the Czechoslovak government and the
European Cultural Forum in Budapest highlighting the state's
repressive cultural policies in Czechoslovakia since 1968
(signed by the Charter 77 spokesmen and seven Czech and Slovak
writers) (880 words).

24 October 1985, Document No. 25/85
Letter to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister requesting
clarification after rumors causing panic about restrictions on travel
to Hungary by Czechoslovak citizens (360 words).

7 November 1985, Document No. 26/85
Letter to the Polish Prime Minister, the Primate of the
Catholic Church in Poland, Lech Walesa, and the Interim
Coordinating Committee of Solidarity expressing Charter 77's
support for political prisoners in Poland on the occasion of
action organized by the banned trade union organization
Solidarity (sent jointly by Charter 77 and VONS and also
designated VONS Communique No. 482) (200 words).

8 November 1985, Document No. 27/85
Letter to the New York-based exile organization the Council of
Free Czechoslovakia in response to its letter criticizing a
group of Charter 77 signatories for signing an appeal entitled
"Nicaragua Has the Right to Peace" (440 words).

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14 November 1985, Document No. 28/85
Analysis submitted to the Czechoslovak Prime Minister, the
Chairman of the State Planning Commission, the Director of the
Economics Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and
various editorial boards of the Czechoslovak media setting out
the causes of a crisis in the Czechoslovak economy and the need
for economic reform (2,600 words).

1986

7 January 1986, Document No. 1/86
Communique announcing the three new spokesmen: Martin Palous,
Anna Sabatova, and Jan Stern (30 words); it was accompanied by
their biographies (340 words).

10 January 1986, Document No. 2/86
Letter to the family of the poet Jaroslav Seifert expressing
condolences at his death (200 words).

20 January 1986, Document No. 3/86
Communique on the death of Jaroslav Seifert (20 words) and
literary portrait of the poet by way of an obituary (850 words).

14 February 1986, Document No. 4/86
Letter to the Committee of Czechs and Slovaks in the Republic
of South Africa replying to a letter about apartheid the
committee had sent to the Charter spokesmen in November 1985
(130 words); appended were the text of this letter (570 words)
and a translation of an article from Le Monde of 29 January
1986 about the situation in South Africa (330 words).

17 February 1986, Document No. 5/86
Letter to the governments of Czechoslovakia, France, the FRG,
the Netherlands, Austria, Great Britain, and the USA following
the release of Eastern bloc espionage agents in exchange for two
political prisoners from the USSR and Czechoslovakia; it was
signed jointly by Charter 77 and VONS and also designated VONS
Communique No. 505 (300 words). (The letter was sent to the
Western governments via their embassies in Prague.)

3 March 1986, Document No. 6/86
Telegram to the family of Olof Palme expressing the Charter's
condolences following the murder of the Swedish Prime Minister
(100 words).

6 March 1986, Document No. 7/86
Analysis entitled "Space for the Younger Generation"
high-lighting the urgent problems and demands of the younger
generation in Czechoslovakia; it was sent to the Czechoslovak
Federal Assembly, with copies to the Czechoslovak government and
the editorial boards of the daily Mlada Fronta and the
magazine Mlady Svet (2,180 words).

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16 March 1986, Document No. 8/86
Communique on the 80th birthday of Frantisek Vodslon (30 words);
it was accompanied by a text by Jiri Ruml entitled "The
Eighty-Year-Old Rebel from Dobrichovice" (75 words).

18 March 1986, Document No. 9/86
Declaration sent to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly to mark
the 10th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's endorsement of the
international covenants on human and civil rights (1,200 words).

18 March 1986, Document No. 10/86
Communique about the interrogation of Charter 77 spokesmen and
threats of legal action over the issuing of Charter 77 Document
No. 7/86 ("Space for the Younger Generation") (160 words).

25 March 1986, Document No. 11/86
Letter to the Danish group Nej Til Atomvaben [No to Nuclear
Weapons] replying to its invitation to attend an international
peace congress in Copenhagen in October 1986 (430 words). (This
document was released together with the text of the Danish
organization's letter and invitation of 11 March 1986.)

16 April 1986, Document No. 12/86
Telegram expressing solidarity with the arrested activists of
the Polish "Freedom and Peace" movement and sent to a rally in
London in support of the two people arrested (80 words).

25 April 1986, Document No. 13/86
Letter to the European Network for East-West Dialogue
concerning the international forum to be held in Milan in May
1986 under the title "The Helsinki Agreements-Illusion or Hope
for Europe?" (300 words). Appended to it was a document signed
by 43 Charter signatories presenting views said to have
"originated within the framework of Charter 77" on European
security and cooperation (2,070 words) as well as Charter 77
Document No. 7/86 ("Space for the Younger Generation").

2 May 1986, Document No. 14/86
Letter about the obstacles facing citizens in Czechoslovakia
seeking to make personal contact or exchange information across
state frontiers; it was sent to the Bern conference of experts
from the CSCE states dealing with questions of human relations
(1,180 words). (Enclosed with the letter were relevant
Charter 77 texts from 1984 to 1986 and a letter from Stanislav
Devaty to President Husak complaining at being prevented from
visiting his daughter in the USA.)

6 May 1986, Document No. 15/86
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government
about the nuclear power station accident in Chernobyl
(360 words).

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13 May 1986, Document No. 16/86
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly on the occasion of
elections to representative bodies on 23 and 24 May 1986
proposing a partial democratization of the electoral system in
Czechoslovakia (450 words).

6 June 1986, Document No. 17/86
Letter to the Socialist International replying to an invitation
to attend its 17th congress in Lima (420 words).

16 June 1986, Document No. 19/86
Letter to the New York-based exile organization the Council of
Free Czechoslovakia explaining the work of Charter 77 spokesmen
and the process of achieving a consensus before issuing
Charter 77 documents (in reply to a letter from the council
dated 2 December 1985) (560 words).

19 June 1986, Document No. 18/86
Analysis of observance in Czechoslovakia of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; it was submitted to the
Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government on the occasion of
a discussion of the report on the state of civil and political
rights in Czechoslovakia at a meeting of the Human Rights
Committee in Geneva from 7-25 July 1986) (1,000 words).
Appended to it was the Declaration of the UN Secretary General
made on 10 December 1985 (International Human Rights Day).

June 1986, Document No. 20/86
Communique (210 words) announcing the release by Charter 77 of
"Responsibility in Politics, Responsibility for Politics," a
collection of replies to questions from young Christians in
Moravia. The replies, which were accompanied by a copy of the
questions and Charter 77 Documents Nos. 20/86 and 7/86 ("Space
for the Younger Generation"), came from the following authors:
Vaclav Benda, K. Cejka, Jiri Dienstbier, Vaclav Havel, Eva
Kanturkova, Jaroslav Meznik, Radim Palous, Zdenek Pokorny,
Jaroslav Sabata, Jan Simsa, Petr Uhl, and J. Vydrar.

15 August 1986, Document No. 21/86
Analysis submitted to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and
government highlighting restrictions on Czechoslovak citizens'
civil and political rights caused by internal regulations of
Czechoslovak employers governing permission to travel abroad and
meet foreign citizens (1,400 words).

20 August 1986, Document No. 22/86
Declaration to mark the 18th anniversary of the military
intervention by five Warsaw Pact states in Czechoslovakia
(300 words).

15 September 1986, Document No. 23/86
Letter to Ladislav German in reply to his letters of 27 June
1986 and 6 July 1986 in which he withdrew his signature from the
Declaration of Charter 77 and explained his reasons for doing so
(780 words).

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18 September 1986, Document No. 24/86
Statement entitled "In Defense of the Jazz Section" submitted
to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and government about the
liquidation of the Jazz Section of the Czech Musicians' Union
and the arrest of its officers (countersigned by VONS and also
issued as its Communique No. 559) (950 words).

18 September 1986, Document No. 25/86
Letter to the Czechoslovak Peace Committee expressing
Charter 77's view on the invitation it had received to the World
Peace Congress in Copenhagen and the obstructions placed in its
way by the Czechoslovak Peace Committee. Copies were also sent
to the Danish organization Nej Til Atomvaben [No to Nuclear
Weapons] and to the preparatory committee of the congress
(400 words).

1 October 1986, Document No. 26/86
List of 25 additional signatories.

2 October 1986, Document No. 27/86
Letter to the Danish organization Nej Til Atomvaben [No to
Nuclear Weapons] about Charter 77's invitation to send
representatives to the World Peace Congress in Copenhagen and
how the Charter's viewpoint could be publicized (210 words).

7 October 1986, Document No. 28/86
Letter about independent peace activities in Czechoslovakia
sent to the World Peace Congress in Copenhagen via the Danish
organization Nej Til Atomvaben (1,250 words).

17 October 1986, Document No. 29/86
Letter to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly about the use of
fire arms by Czechoslovak armed units in the Czechoslovak
frontier areas and the need to amend the legal regulations
governing this practice as well as those governing foreign
travel by Czechoslovak citizens (850 words).

25 October 1986, Document No. 30/86
Letter to the Erasmus Prize Fund in Amsterdam about the award
of the 1986 Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel (1,060 words).

30 October 1986, Document No. 31/86
Letter to delegates of the CSCE follow-up meeting in Vienna on
the opening of talks (320 words).

17 November 1986, Document No. 32/86
Communique (40 words) announcing the publication of a critical
analysis of the state of Czechoslovak higher education prepared
by unidentified authors under the title Gaudeamus Igitur and
issued as a discussion document by Charter 77 with copies sent
to the Ministry of Education of the Czech and Slovak Republics
and the rectors of Czechoslovakia's universities (5,150 words).

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17 November 1986, Document No. 33/86
Letter of greetings to the actress Vlasta Chramostova on her
60th birthday (750 words).

17 November 1986, Document No. 34/86
Introduction to the anniversary volume 10 Years of Charter 77
(220 words).

28 November 1986, Document No. 35/86
Letter to the editors of Rude Pravo criticizing libelous
articles about the Jazz Section and the award of the Erasmus
Prize to Vaclav Havel (700 words).

10 December 1986, Document No. 36/86
Letter to the committee of the Rothko Chapel Prize in Houston,
Texas, thanking it for the award of the Rothko Chapel Prize to
Charter 77 (150 words).

31 December 1986, Document No. 37/86
Obituary of Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova, an exparty member
who joined the dissident movement after 1968 (650 words).

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