{{Short description|Czech journalist, activist, and politician (1941–2021)}} {{Expand Czech|topic=bio|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Petr Uhl | image = Petr Uhl.jpg | caption = Uhl in 2015 | birth_date = 8 October 1941 | birth_place = Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|12|1|1941|10|8}} | death_place = | occupation = Journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | party = OF (1989–1991) <br/> OH (1991–1992) <br/> SZ (2002–2007) | office = Member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia | term_start = 7 June 1990 | term_end = 4 June 1992 | office2 = Chairman of the {{ill|Council and Government Commissioner for Human Rights|cs|Rada vlády pro lidská práva}} | term_start2 = September 1998 | term_end2 = February 2001 | predecessor2 = ''position established'' | successor2 = {{ill|Jan Jařab|cs}} }} '''Petr Uhl''' (8 October 1941 – 1 December 2021) was a Czech journalist, activist and politician.<ref>{{cite news |last=Willoughby|first=Ian|date=12 December 2021|title=Communist-era dissident Petr Uhl dies at 80|url=https://english.radio.cz/communist-era-dissident-petr-uhl-dies-80-8735584|work=Radio Prague|location= |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> A member of the Civic Forum, he served in the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia from 1990 to 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psp.cz/eknih/1990fs/rejstrik/jmenny/sncu.html|title=UHL Petr, Ing.|work=Federální shromáždění ČSFR|language=cs}}</ref> He was also a signatory of Charter 77.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tomek|first=Miroslav|date=23 October 2019|title=Před 40 lety skončil proces proti Výboru na obranu nespravedlivě stíhaných. Mezi odsouzenými byli Uhl i Havel|trans-title= |url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/historie/pred-40-lety-skoncil-proces-proti-vyboru-na-obranu-nespravedlive-stihanych-mezi_1910231415_mtk|language=cs|publisher=Czech Radio|access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/img/img-pamphlets/petr-uhl.pdf ''Petr Uhl and the jailed Chartists in Czechoslovakia''], International Marxist Group, 1980.
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