Martin Mejstřík

Martin Mejstřík (born 30 May 1962) is a Czech politician and human rights activist.

Martin Mejstřík
Senator from Prague 1
In office
2 November 2002  2 November 2008
Preceded byVáclav Fischer
Succeeded byZdeněk Schwarz
Personal details
Born (1962-05-30) 30 May 1962
Kolín, Czechoslovakia
Political partyIndependent
Alma materAcademy of Performing Arts in Prague

Biography

Mejstřík 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]

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