Petr Cibulka
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affiliationsClub of Committed Non-Party Members (1991–1992)[2]
Petr Cibulka | |
|---|---|
 Cibulka in 2025 | |
| Leader of the Right Bloc | |
| Assumed office 22 July 2000[1] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 October 1950 |
| Party | Right Bloc (since 1996) |
| Other political affiliations | Club of Committed Non-Party Members (1991–1992)[2] |
Petr Cibulka (born 27 October 1950) is a Czech politician and former dissident. He is the founder and leader of the minor Right Bloc political party.
Cibulka was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia.[2] As a former member of Charter 77,[3] He was imprisoned multiple times during Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Prior to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Cibulka had been arrested three times, and spent a total of four years in prison for distributing non-official cultural and musical material.[4] During the Velvet Revolution, he was again arrested and imprisoned.[citation needed]
StB archives disclosure
In the early 1990s, Cibulka published material from still-classified StB archives, containing lists of tens of thousands names of people with connections to the secret services. In 1999, he published a second edition of the list in book form. The book sold five times as many copies as the average work of fiction.[3] A searchable electronic version was added later.
In 2003, the Czech government published similar, but much shorter lists, along with the very few personal files kept by the StB.
