... Jan Kavan's complex character and his stubbornness in refusing to submit ; we must also return to the pre - 1989 days of life under the com- munist regime . As has been remarked , this was a difficult time and the bulk of peo- ple made ...
... Kavan's father , Pavel , had been serving as press attaché in the Czech Communist government's London embassy . Jan himself had been born there in October 1946 ; his brother , Zdenek , had followed a few years later . Jan's earliest ...
... Jan Kavan was ' named ' as having collaborated with the secret police forces of the former government . In a letter released on 15 March , Dr Jaroslav Sabata captures my reaction to perfection : ' All my experience cries out against the ...
... Jan Kavan,' journalist Lawrence Weschler highlights the uncanny parallels between the story of Jan Kavan and his father Pavel.7 Both fell foul of the government that they returned to Prague to support. Both underwent lengthy trials to ...
... Jan Kavan Case Lawrence Weschler , " The Velvet Purge : The Trials of Jan Kavan " [ Editor's note : Jan Kavan was a Czech student leader during the Prague Spring of 1968. Subsequent to that , from a base in London , he was a prominent ...
... Jan Kavan versus Denni Telegraf (Daily Telegraph), which took place in January 1996. Equipped with British citizenship, Jan Kavan founded the socalled Palach Press in London after the August 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was a ...
... Jan Kavan (*1946)—the Czech Representative in EU Parliament. Born in London into the family of Czech diplomat Pavel Kavan and British teacher Rosemary Kavan. The family returned to Czechoslovakia in 1950. His father was later arrested ...
... Jan Kavan , one of the most prominent leaders of the dissident movement since the 1968 Prague Spring , was accused of being an informer on the basis of information found in one of the StB files . See Lawrence Weschler , " The Velvet ...
... Jan Kavan , who had been accused illegally , it turned out - of being an StB agent who had cleverly disguised himself at Palach Press , an opposition press agency in London.1 In December 1991 , Havel met Jan Kavan and several of his old ...