Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:18:55 +0200Helsinki Committee’s work was only getting started when communism fell, says director Lucie Rybováhttps://english.radio.cz/helsinki-committees-work-was-only-getting-started-when-communism-fell-says-8286859© 2026 Radio Prague International Along with Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Persecuted, the Czechoslovak Helsinki Committee was a key dissident organisation in the communist period, pressuring the government to adhere to its human rights commitments. Today known as the Czech Helsinki Committee, it is still active, advocating for people who often have nowhere else to turn. I discussed the committee’s work with its director, Lucie Rybová. But I first asked her about the reasons for its establishment, in November 1988. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/rybova_lucie_helsinsky_vybor.jpg?timestamp=1590759214 Helsinki Committee’s work was only getting started when communism fell, says director Lucie Rybová https://english.radio.cz/helsinki-committees-work-was-only-getting-started-when-communism-fell-says-8286859 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9