Miroslav Lehký (born 1947) is a Czech/Slovak

human rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

activist and civil servant, and the current deputy director (since 2007) and chairman of the advisory board of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. He was involved in founding the institute. He is signatory of the

Charter 77 Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Něm ...

manifesto and a founding signatory of the

Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism The Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was a declaration which was initiated by the Czech government and signed on 3 June 2008 by prominent European politicians, former political prisoners and historians, among them former ...

. During

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in 1980s, he was a co-organizer of the underground university in Bratislava. From 1990 to 1994, he was secretary to the Czechoslovak/Czech Helsinki Committee. He was employed by the

Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism The Office of the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism ( cz, Úřad dokumentace a vyšetřování zločinů komunismu, abbrev. ÚDV) is the Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a coun ...

from 1995 to 2003, and was involved in founding the Nation's Memory Institute in Slovakia in 2003. He studied theology from 1968 to 1970, but was not able to finish his studies due to political persecution by the communists.Speaker Biographies
, Sofia Platform – Republic of Bulgaria Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lehky, Miroslav Living people Czechoslovak democracy activists Czech human rights activists Czech anti-communists Czech civil servants Charter 77 signatories 1947 births