The right of asylum in the Charter of Fundamental rights and Freedoms in historical perspective. To pay honour to Vladimír Mikule
Abstract
The aim of this article is to describe historical development of political asy-lum on the territory of the present Czech Republic, after Czechoslovakia came into existence, and its influence on constitutional regulation of asylum in Art. 43 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. The author describes grant-ing of asylum to the foreigners who were persecuted during the First Czechoslovak Republic's era.
Subsequently, the article focuses on regulation of this topic after the Second World War in Czechoslovakia and other countries in Eastern Europe. Finally, the author describes changes arriving during the process of trans-formation of constitutional systems in the 90s in these countries and specifi-cally in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
The author expresses his own opinion concerning basic consequences arising for the interpretation of Art. 43 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms from the above mentioned historical grounds.