The Economist (US), February 25th, 1989
Czechoslovakia Human wrongs
JUST weeks after European governments made brave new promises in Vienna about respecting human rights, Eastern Europe's best-known playwright has been sent to prison for laying a few flowers at a monument. Despite criticism from the West and protests from the Hungarian and Serbian writers' unions and from the Polish opposition, Czechoslovakia pressed ahead with the trial of Mr Vaclav Havel. On February 21st he was sentenced to nine months in prison.
Besides being a famous playwright (whose plays, however, are banned in his own country), Mr Havel is also a promin...
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