Published by: World Tibet Network News, Friday, October 4, 1996

CTK news agency

Prague, 2nd October: About 10 members of the Transnational Radical Party staged a peace demonstration outside the Foreign Ministry building today to draw people's attention to the violation of human rights in China and Tibet.

On the occasion, party representatives Olga Cechurova and John Bok met Foreign Ministry officials to give them a letter for Minister Josef Zieleniec.

"The meeting was positive. If our foreign policy continues its current way, it will be to our satisfaction," Cechurova told journalists after the meeting.

The demonstrators mainly want the Foreign Ministry to push for the release of Wei Jingsheng, the most renowned Chinese dissident, who was released after 15 years of imprisonement in 1993 but given the same sentence again two years later.

The Transnational Radical Party wants the Czech ambassador in Beijing to visit Wei Jingsheng in prison if only to know his real state of health, which is reportedly grave.

As China views any appeals for the observance of human rights as interference with its internal affairs, the problem of release of Chinese dissidents requires using the most sensitive diplomacy, ministry senior official Milos Pojar said.