Ivan Gel
{{short description|Ukrainian politician and dissident}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ivan Gel
| native_name = {{nobold|Іван Гель}}
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| office = Deputy Chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council
| termstart = 1990
| termend = 1994
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|07|17}}
| birth_place = Klitsko, today Lviv oblast
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|3|16|1937|7|17|df=y}}
| death_place = Lviv
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| awards = {{MOL}}
{{Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class}}
{{Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class}}
| known_for = human rights activism with participation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
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Ivan Gel ({{Langx|uk|Іван Андрійович Гель}}, July 17, 1937, Klitsko (today Lviv Raion) – March 16, 2011){{Cite web|url=https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/41282|title=Ukrainian dissident Ivan Hel has died|website=risu.org.ua|access-date=2019-06-06}} was a Ukrainian politician and dissident. He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party.
Biography
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He graduated from a night school in Sambir and worked as a mechanic at the Lviv Forklift Plant.
From 1956 to 1959 he served in the army. After demobilization, he entered the department of the History Faculty of Lviv State University.
On August 24, 1965, he was arrested and sentenced to 3 years in a strict regime camp for "anti-Soviet propaganda".
On January 12, 1972, he was arrested for the second time and sentenced to 10 years in a special regime camp and 5 years in exile, recognized as a particularly dangerous recidivist. He served his sentence in Mordovia (Sosnovka) and in the Perm region (Kuchino).
He participated in hunger strikes in the camps, including a hunger strike demanding political prisoner status. Total duration of hunger strikes was over 300 days.
Ivan Gel returned to Ukraine on January 17, 1987, and created and headed the Committee for the Protection of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
He was a deputy and deputy chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council of the first democratic convocation (1990–1994). He headed the Lviv Regional Commission for the Restoration of the Rights of Rehabilitated Persons.
He died on March 16, 2011, in Lviv and was buried in the family grave at Lychakiv Cemetery.
Awards
- {{MOL}} (September 18, 2009).[http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=759%2F2009 Указ Президента України №759/2009 від 18 вересня 2009 року «Про відзначення державними нагородами України»]
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 4th class (August 18, 2006).[http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=694%2F2006 Указ Президента України №694/2006 від 18 серпня 2006 року «Про відзначення державними нагородами України працівників підприємств, установ та організацій з нагоди Дня незалежності України»]
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 5th class (January 21, 2002).[http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=57%2F2002 Указ Президента України №57/2002 від 21 січня 2002 року «Про нагородження працівників підприємств, організацій та установ Львівської області»]
References
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Category:Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery
Category:Politicians from Lviv Oblast
Category:People from Lwów Voivodeship
Category:Ukrainian politicians
Category:Ukrainian Helsinki Group
Category:Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class
Category:Recipients of the Order of Liberty (Ukraine)
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