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assment -SCOOP questioned London NI NAME (Your signature) THOSE WHO LIE on the rails to stop the train of history must of the Czechoslovak Communist Party newspaper, Rude Pravo, to the most serious public challenge to the Husak regime since One month after Husak was forced by international pro tests to free leading socialis oppositionists, including Jiri Muller and Milan Hubl, manifesto signed by 240 intellectuals, workers and citizens amrive in une vest. ine mani festo, 'Charter 77' , denounces the suppression of civil rights in Czechoslovakia The name symbolises the Charter's initiation in the year which has been designated by Amnesty International as the 1977 will also see the fielgrade political prisoners. Conference, whose task is to examine how the Helsinki pledges, to which the Husak is a signatory, have The document lists some o the basic rights denied to tens of thousands of opponents o the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia of 1968• denial o employment in their own field denial of their children's ac cess to education, no freedom of literary, cultural and artistic expression, the right to privacy infringed by phone-tapping, bugging, house searches and the like, and the imprisonment of many for their The Czech authorities' reswas immediate, denouncing the document as written on me command anti-Communist and Zionist and ten publisned by the most reactionary press The signatories called bankrupt politicians' and political and social people who have broken all ties with the people of their own country' (a remarkably accurate descrintion o present ruling bureauAfter the manifesto became known, four of the signatories were held for questioning by the secret police and house were conducted This led to another document appearing on 9 January. time almost 300 people signed the protes again so en subsequent rouna or police raids was ta more extensive: at least eves were beaned and On 10 January tory, Pavel Kohout, passed on the following message via The Times correspondent at the moment when the police were breaking down his door:
What is the use of Helsinki and conventions on human rights when they are ignored blatantly like this? As a member of the Communist Party for 23 years until I was thrown out contrary to party rules, 1 must ask my fellow-communists and fellow-writers abroad. now long must we put up with this?' FREE The response of the French. Italian and British Communist rames was immediately JIRI MULLER - recently release denounce the regime's harass. ment of human rights movement French paper L'Humanité has now joined ranks of those denounced by the Czech authorities as 'the most reaction arv newsoabers the west by reprinting large excerpts from 'Charter 77 These denunciations may shield the dissidents initially. but the demand must go up for these parties to join those who were active in organising the international campaign to free Muller and Hubl in demanding an end to the repression of the new movement of protest.
* On page 11, Helen Jamieson previous: unsubiisner tacts on the mass movement o protest against police brutality in DOMESTIC: E7 per yea E3.50 for six months FOREIGN: E9 per year surface mail E12 per year armail 0 Cuedoman Foad
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