Prague, November 10th 1995 - The day before yesterday, 8.11.1995, was held the demonstration in front of the Nigerian Embassy in Prague on the Nigerian writer, who was sentenced to death last Wednesday.

This man, Ken Saro-Wiwa, is a prominent writer, proposed for Nobel Prize for peace this year and head of the Nigerian PEN club, and also head of Organization for Rights of Ethnical Minorities in Africa and founder of certain ecological organization there.

He was accused that his speech stimulated the youth wing organization MOSOP to four political murders. Newspapers informed also about the protests of "international democratic society" aginst the death sentence for him.

The demonstration was organized by Czech ecological organizations, there were about 60 people, mainly representatives of NGO's in Czech Republic, including Society for Sustainable Living, Romany Civic Initiative, Movement for Civic Solidarity and Tolerance, Children of the Earth, Czech offices of Greenpeace and Amnesty International, etc... Radicals were invited there, two of them - Richard Stockar and Olga Cechurova took part in it, holding the Radical banner "Do not kill".

The member of the General Council of RP Olga Cechurova was among the main speakers and in her speech she informed about the world-wide campaign of RP for the abolition of the death penalty by year 2000, saying that the death penalty must be abolished not just for innocent people or political prisoners but mainly for those who are proven guilty. In spite of the fact that this statement brougt very different and mixed reactions, the result of it was rather supportive.

Unofficial informations speak about a protesting declaration of the Czech Government against the death sentence for Mr. Saro-Wiwa. No informations - neither about the Governmental standpoint nor about the demonstration - were published in mass medias, except for the articles of ecological activists informing about the roots of this case in yesterday's newspapers.