Boris Ottokar Dittrich (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈboːrɪz ˈditrix]; born 21 July 1955 in Utrecht) is a human rights activist and a former Dutch politician and writer.Dittrich's father came to the Netherlands as a political asylum seeker from Czechoslovakia in 1948, he became a professor in Eastern-European history at the University of Utrecht.Boris Dittrich grew up in Utrecht and went to law school at Leiden University.