JIRI DIENSTBIER

• Born: April 20, 1937
• Died: January 8, 2011
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Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist. Born in Kladno, he was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring. Unable to have a livelihood as a journalist, he worked as a janitor for the next two decades. During this time, he secretly revived the suppressed Lidové noviny newspaper.