František Janouch, a Czech nuclear physicist who supported dissidents from Sweden, dies at age 92

Czech nuclear physicist František Janouch has died at age 92. Janouch was known for setting up a foundation in Sweden while in exile to support the dissident movement in his communist homeland at the time. The Charter 77 Foundation said Janouch died on Friday morning in Stockholm where he had lived since the 1970s at the invitation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He established the foundation in December 1978 to support those in Czechoslovakia who signed the Charter 77 human rights manifesto co-drafted by then dissident Václav Havel. The signatories of the manifesto faced harsh persecution from the communist authorities. Prime Minister Petr Fiala says Janouch's activities contributed to the return of freedom to the Czech Republic.