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Ivan Gel
Іван Гель
Deputy Chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council
In office
1990–1994
Personal details
Born(1937-07-17)July 17, 1937
Klitsko, today Lviv oblast
Died16 March 2011(2011-03-16) (aged 73)
Lviv
Known forhuman rights activism with participation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
AwardsMember of the Order of Liberty Member of the Order of Liberty
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class

Ivan Gel (Ukrainian: Іван Андрійович Гель, July 17, 1937, Klitsko (today Lviv Raion) – March 16, 2011)[1] was a Ukrainian politician and dissident. He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party.

Biography

Ivan Gel's family grave on field 67 of the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv

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.

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