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Published on February 14, 2014 News

Anna Šabatová becomes new Czech ombudsman

She will take up the post after being sworn-in by Chamber of Deputies chairman Jan Hamacek on the 18th February.

Mrs Anna Šabatová was born on 23rd June 1951 in Brno. She is graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and received doctor's degree at Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno (2008).

She has never been a member of any party. She was a dissident under the communist regime and one of the first signatories of the Charter 77 opposition movement. In 1986, she was Charter 77 spokeswoman. In 1978-1990 she was a member of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS).

She was deputy to the first Czech ombudsman Otakar Motejl (2001-2007) and the head of the Czech Helsinki Committee from 2008 to early 2013.

She received several awards for her work, including the Czech medal of merit (2002) and a U.N. prize for defending human rights (1998).

She has been a human rights advocate for whole of her life and she has been focusing on social policy in general.

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