Members of VONS
The 44 members of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Persecuted are listed in alphabetical order. The number in brackets after each name and surname refers to the date that the membership of the given person was made public in the corresponding VONS communiqué.
Founding members also included Alfréd Kocáb (his membership was never made public), Jakub Trojan (his membership was made public on March 6, 1979) and Jaroslav Suk (his membership remained undisclosed until he went into exile on February 26, 1981).
Until June 19, 1979, Ervín Motl was also on record as a member of VONS, but this was not in fact the case and was later disclaimed by the person in question (originally he had been listed as a member on the suggestion of Rudolf Battěk). The VONS Summary Communiqué No. 195 of August 3, 1980, also lists Svatopluk Karásek, who was at that time already in exile, as a member of VONS; this was not actually the case. The same is true of Petr Brodský, who is listed as a VONS member in the Summary Communiqué No. 713 of December 10, 1987.
During the 1990s several VONS members gradually suspended or terminated their activities, among them Petr Uhl (he suspended his membership on March 15, 1992; he left the committee on March 24, 1993), Anna Šabatová, Lenka Marečková and Jakub Trojan. Milan Hulík and Jiří Gruntorád, on the other hand, became members after 1989. Since June 3, 1996, when the last meeting of members was held, all activities of VONS have been suspended.
List of VONS Members
Battěk, Rudolf (April 27, 1978)
Bednářová Otta (April 27, 1978)
Bělíková, Jarmila (April 27, 1978)
Benda, Václav (April 27, 1978)
Cibulka, Petr (December 2, 1985)
Černý, Albert (January 5, 1979)
Danisz, Josef (February 5, 1980)
Devátý, Stanislav (June 3, 1986)
Dienstbier, Jiří (April 27, 1978)
Freund, Karel (June 19, 1979)
Freundová, Zina (June 19, 1979)
Gruntorád, Jiří (August 1, 1994)
Havel, Václav (April 27, 1978)
Hejda, Zbyněk (June 19, 1979)
Hulík, Milan (September 9, 1990)
Hybler, Martin (June 19, 1979)
Janýr, Přemysl ml. (April 27, 1978)
Jirous, Ivan (May 15, 1981)
Kocáb, Alfréd
Ledererová, Elżbieta (April 27, 1978)
Lis, Ladislav (July 7, 1978)
Litomiský, Jan (March 6, 1979)
Malý, Václav (April 27, 1978)
Marečková, Lenka (June 3, 1986)
Matzenauer, Michal (June 19, 1979)
Medek, Ivan (April 27, 1978)
Němcová, Dana (April 27, 1978)
Němec, Jiří (August 3, 1978)
Pacovský, Ludvík (April 27, 1978)
Pavelka, Jan (June 19, 1979)
Pospíchal, Petr (December 10, 1987)
Roubal, Pavel (June 19, 1979)
Ruml, Jan (June 19, 1979)
Ruml, Jiří (April 27, 1978)
Sekaninová-Čakrtová, Gertruda (April 27, 1978)
Stankovič, Andrej (June 19, 1979)
Suk, Jaroslav (April 27, 1978)
Šabatová, Anna (April 27, 1978)
Šustrová, Petruška (June 19, 1979)
Tesař, Jan (April 27, 1978)
Trojan, Jakub (March 3, 1979)
Uhl, Petr (April 27, 1978)
Vokatý, Zdeněk (June 19, 1979)
Vránová, Věra (June 1, 1980)