Petr Cibulka

Petr Cibulka (born 27 October 1950) is a Czech politician and dissident. He is the founder and leader of the minor Right Bloc political party.

Communist era

Cibulka was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. As a former member of Charter 77,[1] Cibulka was imprisoned multiple times during Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Prior to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Cibulka had been arrested three times, and spent a total of four years in prison for distributing non-official cultural and musical material.[2] During the Velvet Revolution, he was again arrested and imprisoned, but was released as crowds gathered in front of the prison in which he was held and demanded his release.

StB archives disclosure

In the early 1990s, Cibulka published material from still-classified StB archives, containing lists of tens of thousands names of people with connections to the secret services. In 1999, he published a second edition of the list in book form. The book sold five times as many copies as the average work of fiction.[1] A searchable electronic version was added later.

In 2003, the Czech government published similar, but much shorter lists, along with the very few personal files kept by the StB.

Other activities

Cibulka published an online political journal entitled "Uncensored News" (Czech: Necenzurované Noviny).

He is also the founder and leader of a tiny political party, the Right Bloc (Czech: Pravý blok).[3] He was nominated by the party as its candidate in the 2013 presidential election, but he was able to collect only 300 signatures of the required 50,000, and did not qualify as a candidate.[4]

References
  1. "The Kundera Conundrum: Kundera, Respekt and Contempt". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  2. "For Czechoslovakian prisoners | RadioRadicale.it". www.radioradicale.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  3. Juliet., Lodge; service), Palgrave Connect (Online (2010). The 2009 elections to the European Parliament. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230297272. OCLC 756047415.
  4. "Cibulka si kvůli vyřazení z prezidentské volby stěžuje u Ústavního soudu". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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