Martin Mejstřík

Martin Mejstřík
Senator from Prague
In office 2002–2008
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Born	30 May 1962
Political party	Independent
Website	martinmejstrik.cz

Martin Mejstřík (born 30 May 1962 in Kolín) is a Czech politician and human rights activist. He is notable for his role as a student leader during the Velvet Revolution that led to the ousting of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in November 1989.^[1] He served as a Senator in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from 2002 to 2008, representing Prague 1 as an independent, and was a member of the Senate Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions. Mejstřík is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism (and the co-organizer, with Jana Hybášková, of its preceding conference)^[2] and the Declaration on Crimes of Communism. He was also one of the politicians proposing the creation of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. In 2007, he proposed a ban on "communist and all totalitarian propaganda and symbols".^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.ce-review.org/00/9/stastna9.html
2. ^ "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. http://www.praguedeclaration.org/. Retrieved 28 January 2010. 
3. ^ "A new legal initiative in the Czech Senate aimed at banning communist and all totalitarian propaganda and symbols". Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. July 27, 2007. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5ypgdrFoF. Retrieved 18 May 2011. 

External links

• Official site

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Name	Mejstrik, Martin
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Date of birth	30 May 1962
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