Gerald Nagler, leading human rights activist since Cold War, died July 23 at his home in Stockholm. He was 92.
then Czechoslovakia. During one visit with Havel at his summer dacha outside Prague, Mr. Nagler presumed the rooms were bugged by the secret police and suggested they take a walk for privacy.Havel said it didn’t matter. He pointed to a small cottage nearby, Mr. Nagler recalled. It was a “listening station” that constantly monitored every movement by, who would become the last president of Czechoslovakia in 1989 as anti-communist groups took charge.
During another trip to Prague in the early 1980s, Mr. Nagler planned to take part in a meeting with writers, academics and others seen by the government as enemies. The night before the gathering, Mr. Nagler received a note that the host hotel “suddenly had to repair all its windows or something like that,” said his longtime colleague Benedicte Berner, a former chairwoman of Civil Rights Defenders and Mr. Nagler’s longtime colleague, in a telephone interview.
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