Former president Václav Havel receives Germany’s Golden Hen award

Former Czech president Václav Havel received the Golden Hen award in Berlin on Wednesday in recognition of his courage in the revolutionary year of 1989, as well as of his life-time political work. During his four-day visit to the German capital on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr Havel will meet with German President Horst Köhler, former German head of state Richard von Weizsacker as well as the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.