Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:05:11 +0200https://english.radio.cz/vons-veterans-meet-remember-campaign-against-communist-repression-8596812© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThirty years ago, on April 24th, 1978, seventeen Czechoslovak citizens got together and decided to form an organisation called VONS – the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted. The organisation’s aim was to monitor and publicise cases of people unlawfully prosecuted by the Communist regime. Within a year, five VONS members – including Václav Havel, Petr Uhl and Jiří Dienstbier – had themselves been sent to prison, an act that received worldwide condemnation. On Tuesday former VONS members gathered for a seminar at the Senate to mark the organisation’s 30th anniversary. They included original member Jaroslav Suk, who was forced into exile in 1981 and now lives in Sweden:encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/vons_0.jpg?timestamp=1591374097 https://english.radio.cz/vons-veterans-meet-remember-campaign-against-communist-repression-8596812 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9