György Bence

György Bence (Budapest, 8 December 1941–Budapest, 28 October 2006) was a university professor, philosopher, dissident and political consultant.

In 1979 he was among the first Hungarians who criticized together with Andrei Sakharov and others the Soviet crackdown on the Czech Charter 77 signatories. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948790-2,00.html] . Later he was among the founding members of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. [http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewhtml.php?doc_id=7143]

External links

*hu icon [http://metazin.hu/node/685?PHPSESSID=8d87336fbed092cbf6fc86d2a073ae4b Metazin list of obituaries] Review of Bence's collection in English: [http://www.ece.ceu.hu/?q=node/77]

ee also

János Kis