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27. dubna 1978
VH together with other signatories of Charter 77 founds the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS). It monitored and drew attention to the cases of those who were prosecuted contrary to the then laws of Czechoslovakia.
srpen 1978
VH attends the first joint meeting of the representatives of the Polish Committee for Social Self-defence (KOR) and Charter 77, held on the Czechoslovak-Polish border. At the second meeting in September, he co-signs the Joint Letter to human rights activists in Eastern Europe, signed by 21 participants in the meeting. A third meeting, planned for October, is thwarted by Czechoslovak and Polish police.
říjen 1978
VH writes his best-known essay The Power of the Powerless, an analysis of the current condition of and prospects for political dissent and a text about ceasing to “live a lie“ and attempting to “live in truth“.
1978–79
VH is under house arrest for six months. From December 1978 the secret police monitor the staircase of his home in Prague. They also build a special sentry box facing Hrádeček that is nicknamed Lunochod. From May 1979 he and 11 other VONS members are arrested.
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