Jiří Dienstbier Jr.
| Jiří Dienstbier | |
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| Senator from Kladno | |
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Assumed office 25 March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Jiří Dienstbier |
| Minister of the Czech Republic for Human Rights and Equal Opportunities | |
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In office 29 January 2014 – 30 November 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Bohuslav Sobotka |
| Preceded by | Michael Kocáb |
| Succeeded by | Jan Chvojka |
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| Born |
27 May 1969 Washington D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Jaroslava Tomášová |
| Children | Jiří |
| Parents |
Jiří Dienstbier Sr. Zuzana Dienstbierová |
| Alma mater |
Czech Technical University Charles University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Jiří Dienstbier Jr. (born 27 May 1969, Washington, D.C.) is a Czech politician and lawyer, who has been a member of the Czech Senate, for the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) since 2011, representing Kladno. He previously served as Minister for Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation in Bohuslav Sobotka's cabinet, and at various points he has been Deputy Chairman of ČSSD, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and shadow minister of Justice. He was also the ČSSD candidate for the first direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic in 2013.
He is the son of Jiří Dienstbier Sr., a well-known Czech dissident and politician.
Jiří Dienstbier Jr. is the son of Jiří Dienstbier Sr., former journalist and civil rights activist who became the first Minister of Foreign Affairs in the newly democratic Czechoslovakia, and Zuzana Dienstbierová, née Wíšová, a psychologist. His parents and his grandfather, Jaromír Wíšo, were signatories to the Charter 77 human rights declaration. Consequently, Dienstbier's family experienced intense political pressure from the Communist regime during the "Normalization" period after 1969. While Jiří Dienstbier Jr was 10 years old, his father was imprisoned for his work in a movement acting parallel to Charter 77, the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted (Czech: Výbor na obranu nespravedlivě stíhaných; VONS).
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