Prag: Prague: still 16 people in Jail!

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There are still at least 16 people in jail
after the S26 demonstrations in Prague and
a total of at least 25 people have been charged
by the police. It is vital we put on more
pressure to get everyone released and all
the charges dropped.

Below is a letter you can sign and email to the
Czech authorities. If you have the time you
should also fax or post it and print it
out and get others to sign it. Feel free
to modify the text before you send it

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During and after the S26 demonstration in
Prague the Czech police arrested up to 950
people. Those arrested were denied their
legal rights, were beaten in custody and
denied access to legal aid, food,
medicine, clean water and toilets. Many
of those arrested report of being
prevented sleeping for up to 36 hours by
the police. The fact that only 25 of
those arrested were actually charged
demonstrates not only the random nature of
the arrests but also the reality of the
police riot that took place on S26 and
S27. Photographs show that many of the
police had removed or obscured their
identification numbers.

In addition photographs that have been
published in newspapers and on the
internet reveal the presence of police
agents-provocateurs dressed as rioters.
According to the Czech newspaper Lidove
Noviny, Sept. 29 Page 2

"observers have filmed a man smashing a
McDonald's window and then walking away
through a police cordon without any
hassle"

"reporters met policemen dressed up as
demonstrators in black sweatshirts with
black scarves or hoods over their faces.
At Tylovo Namesti, reporters saw one of
the masked policemen hit metal bars on a
showcase window with a pole torn off a
railing; later, he arrested activists"

Obscenely Interior Minister Stanislav
Gross reacted to the evidence of
undercover agents by calling for the
people presenting this evidence to also be
arrested. (Prague Post of Wednesday,
October 4, 2000). There is international
outrage at the police abuses and the
massive cover up of them the Czech state
is now involved in. Demonstrations have
happened outside Czech embassies all over
the world and tens of thousands of protest
letters and emails have poured in from
organisations and individuals.

I demand the immediate release of all
prisoners still in Czech jails from the
S26 demonstrations against the IMF and
World Bank.

I demand that all the charges against
people arrested on that day be immediately
dropped

Signed

Address:

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Quickly email to:
 president@hrad.cz
 stiznosti@mvcr.cz
 oks@mvcr.cz

If you have time also fax, phone or post
to the following

Office of President Vaclav Havel:
4202 24310855 phone
4202 24373196 fax
e-mail:  president@hrad.cz

Ministry of the Interior:
4202 61421115
4202/6143 3552-3 (fax)
e-mail:  stiznosti@mvcr.cz

Police
e-mail:  oks@mvcr.cz

Ministry of Justice
mail: Vysehradska 16, 128 10 Praha 2
4202 21997111 phone
4202 24919927

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Other suggestions:
Print out copies of this letter and do ask people
to sign it at a street stall, where you work or
study or at meetings. Get them to donate the
cost of a stamp as well or drop it by hand into
your local embassy

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