>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) >Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:22:00 -0400 >Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:23:49 +0000 (GMT) >From: Brian Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Prague Prisoners need your help > >Prague Prisoners need your help! > >As many of you might know by now, things in Prague are pretty chaotic. >People have been here protesting the IMF/WorldBank for the past week. >Yesterday was the big day and we have reports of well over 500 people >arrested. People are being pulled off the streets continuously. While >there are some legal observers the authorities are refusing to give out >any information and are not even close to acting like they are part of a >democracy. > >Anyway..we need some help here. This isn't an 'official' request from the >legal team but is one that would help. We need people to email or phone >officials in Prague and demand the following: > >1} that information be released to embassies and the legal observers >as to who was arrested, when, for what reasons, and where they are being >held. ( this is very important as it is becoming very difficult to launch >a legal strategy without this info) > >2} that the physical and sexual abuse happening to protestors in police >custody end immediately and appropriate action taken on the offending >officers. > >3} that protestors held in jail be informed in their own laguage what they >are being held for. > >4} and of course, the immediate release of all protestors arresested in >the past week. > >These demands can be sent to the Miniostry of the Interior, Mgr. Stanislaw >GROSS. tel. 02/6143 2971-4, fax 02/6143 3552-3. or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For updates on what is happening check the praha.indymedia.org page for >updates. Once again things are very chaotic here and it seems everyone has >a different report. Contact the minister at once and other officials you >may be able to find contact info for. > >To contact the legal observers email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 042-0608-721617 >or contact inpeg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >keep resisting >still on the streets >Brian Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ............................................. > > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
