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IMPRISONED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti-regime activities were associated with enormous risk. House searches, interrogations, imprisonment, unjustified detention, dismissal from work, harassment, surveillance, intimidation, and blackmail with threats of harm to loved ones. Women were imprisoned just like men and received harsh sentences regardless of whether they were pregnant or caring for small children. For example, Drahom\u00edra \u0160inoglov\u00e1 was sentenced to one year in prison for retyping samizdat publications. During her arrest in 1982, her six-month-old son was snatched from her arms and taken to a nursery by social workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorota \u0160imekov\u00e1: „(…) The prosecution requested expert opinions from the rector of Comenius University, who at that time was Professor Kvasni\u010dka, and then from the Political School \u2013 from some colonels, who stated in their opinions that we were actually even a spy or military threat, that we were helping to prepare for World War III. This put us in a very dangerous position, and we were actually threatened with charges of „subversion of the republic” and could have gone to prison for much longer, as in the 1950s.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ivanka Hyblerov\u00e1:\u00a0 „I passed on materials about the trial to German television, French newspapers, and lawyers from the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues. (…) Breaking down the information barrier was very important to me. It was necessary for people on the other side of the Iron Curtain to learn what was happening here, and at the same time it was a source of hope for the imprisoned ones.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marie \u017divn\u00e1 died in prison under unclear circumstances. Her family was told that she had committed suicide. She was 24 years old. Source: Private archive of the \u017ditn\u00fd family \/ Nation’s memory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ewa Kubasiewicz was sentenced to ten years in prison „for distributing leaflets.” This show trial was intended to intimidate society, and the evidence presented was a leaflet calling for active resistance against the state of emergency. Her 22-year-old son Marek also ended up in prison. Pictured behind bars.
Source: No right to return<\/em>, Publishing house Wektory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In 1979, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted were imprisoned. In the trial of the so-called Prague Ten, Otta Bedn\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1 (second from left at the top, 3 years), Jarmila B\u011bl\u00edkov\u00e1 (second from right at the top, 7 months and hunger strike), Dana N\u011bmcov\u00e1 (bottom center, conditionally sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment) were among the convicted ones.
Source: Archive of Libri prohibiti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ivanka Hyblerov\u00e1, who spent six months in prison in 1971 for distributing leaflets calling for a boycott of the elections, informed the world about the VONS trial. Anna \u0160abatov\u00e1 was also imprisoned as part of the same leafleting campaign.
Source: Private archive of I. Lefeuvre Hyblerov\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As a student, Dorota \u0160imekov\u00e1 took part in a hunger strike at Comenius University demanding that Jan Palach’s demands be met. Later, she and the others, including Marie \u017divn\u00e1, were tried in the trial of the Church of Unity and spent 44 months in prison.\u00a0 The photo shows Dorota \u0160imekov\u00e1 at a happening on 1 May 1969. Instead of portraits of communists, she and her friends carried their own photo in the May Day parade.
Source: Private archive of D. \u0160imekov\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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