Helena Válková

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Helena Válková , née Helena Mičková (born January 7, 1951 in Chlumec nad Cidlinou ), is a Czech politician, professor, lawyer (specializing in criminal law and criminology) and Minister of Justice in the Bohuslav Sobotka government from January 2014 to early March 2015 . She resigned after criticizing her administration. Her successor was her previous deputy Robert Pelikán .

Career

Until 1989 she was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . After 1989 she got involved in the Občanské fórum movement (citizens' forum). From 1993 she taught at the Law Faculty of the West Bohemian University in Pilsen and worked on the establishment and expansion of the criminal law department. In 1998 she became a professor in this department.

She became known to the general public in 2009 when she had disclosed and criticized grievances in the Faculty of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, among other things in the awarding of diplomas and titles (among other things to high-ranking politicians). whereupon the faculty management had to resign, which disrupted teaching. Because of her criticism, she was temporarily released from head of the department in 2009. In 2011, after further disagreements, she and a few other colleagues left the university for good.

In December 2019, President Zeman proposed that Válková be nominated for the post of the Ombudsman of the Czech Republic for Human Rights. At the beginning of 2020 it was announced that she wrote an article in 1979 with Josef Urválek, who as prosecutor in the trial with Milada Horáková in 1950 and in the Slansky trial in 1952, wrote an article in which she wrote about the tightened measures and harassment against dissidents, at that time also in particular against the Charter 77 activists. Válková denied these reports, calling them a lie, but subsequently declined the nomination. However, she refused to resign as Commissioner for Human Rights of the Government Council. She was elected to this office in May 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helena Válková , report of the news portal Novinky.cz from April 1, 2014, online at: novinky.cz / ...
  2. ↑ a b Představujeme české političky: Helena Válková , report on the portal Fórum 50% (serial Czech politicians), online at: padesatprocent.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Zeman navrhl na ombudsmanku bývalou ministryni spravedlnosti Helenu Válkovou , news portal Aktuálně.cz of December 13, 2019, online at: zpravy.aktualne.cz / ...
  4. ↑ Válková se v KSČ podílela na šikaně disidentů. S mužem, který poslal na smrt Horákovou , Info.cz portal, January 9, 2020, online at: info.cz/ ; Text of the article from 1979: Josef Urválek and Helena Válková: Některé poznatky z výzkumu ochranného dohledu v souvislosti s prokurátorským dozorem (Some findings from the investigations into protective supervision in connection with the surveillance by the public prosecutor's office), in: 1/1979 25ff., Online at: info.cz/
  5. ↑ Past human rights commissioner consulted , Czech Radio (Czech Radio's international broadcast), January 10, 2020, online at: radio.cz / ...
  6. ↑ Válková obhajovala institute, který KSČ zneužívala k šikaně disidentů. 'Nehorázná lež,' reaguje Válková , radio broadcast by iROZHLAS, January 9, 2020, online at: irozhlas.cz / ...
  7. ↑ Válková: Odmítnu nominaci na post veřejné ochránkyně práv , radio broadcast by iROZHLAS, January 10, 2020, online at: irozhlas.cz / ...
  8. ↑ Válková odmítla odstoupit z funkce zmocněnkyně pro lidská práva. Vysvětlovala ministrům svou kauzu , TV station Česká televize ČT24, January 13, 2020, online at: ct24.ceskatelevize.cz / ...
personal data
SURNAME Válková, Helena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mičková, Helena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Chlumec nad Cidlinou