CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Prague 10 November 89 - A demonstration was held in front of the Internal Affairs Ministry in favour of several political prisoners detained in the Czechoslovakian prisons, and for the right to associate and print publications and newspapers. The demonstrations was held on the occasion of the day for detained politicians indetta in Czechoslovakia by the opposition organizations. The demonstrations, promoted by the HOS (movement for civil liberty) saw the participation of nearly 40 demonstrators, who wrote recavano the names of the political prisoners on their boards. Few minutes after the demonstrations began, the police intervened, and stopped all the demonstrators including the Prague radical exponent John Bok. They were detained for some hours and released in the evening.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

ALSO ARRESTED IN PRAGUE YESTERDAY JOHN BOK, OF THE RADICAL PARTY. TELEGRAMME OF THE RADICAL SECRETARY STANZANI TO THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN AMBASSADOR TO ROME

Rome 18 November - N.R. - John Bok was also arrested yesterday afternoon, during the huge demonstration that saw hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovakian citizens manifesting at Prague. Bok belongs to the Radical Party. He was accused of having attacked a policeman: an accusation that is absolutely and radically baseless. Bok was a victim, like many others, of an unjustified, violent and indiscriminate act of repression, used by police forces to impede an authorised demonstration from becoming a peaceful one.

The first secretary of the Radical Party, Sergio Stanzani, sent the following telegramme to the Czechoslovakian ambassador to Rome today:

"Shocked by the violently repressive action that took place yesterday in Prague against a peaceful demonstration, I request the immediate release of the arrested citizens, among whom our colleague John Bok of the Radical Party; I confirm, in the name of the Radical Party, that the application of democratic rights is obligatory to the Czechoslovakian government by the Helsinki accord and the successive international accords that are widely subscribed."

ON 30 OCTOBER, THE TRADITIONAL DAY FOR SOVIET POLITICAL PRISONERS, PEOPLE BELONGING TO THE RADICAL PARTY OF BAKI IN AZERBAIGIAN UNITED AT THE RADICAL ASSOCIATION PEACE AND LIBERTY, PARTICIPATING IN A DAY OF FAST IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE IN THE SOVIET UNION.

DESPITE ALL ASSURANCES ON THE PART OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, ABOUT 150 PEOPLE ARE STILL DETAINED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, PRISONS AND PSYCHIATRIC WARDS FOR THEIR POLITICAL CONVICTIONS. CALL BY THE RADICAL ASSOCIATION PEACE AND LIBERTY DIRECTED TO ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO OBTAIN THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN THE SOVIET UNION AND TO LIMIT, BY LAW, THE ACTIVITIES OF THE KGB: "THIS CAN BE OBTAINED ONLY WITH THE HELP AND SUPPORT OF ALL THE DEMOCRATIC AND PACIFICIST FORCES IN THE WEST", THEY AFFIRMED.

YUGOSLAVIA

CONGRESS OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN SOCIALIST YOUTH (ZSMS) - MARINO BUSDACHIN INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE RADICAL PARTY. GREETING BY MARCO PANNELLA, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF YOUNG SOCIALISTS.

Marino Busdachin, who intervened at the Congress of Young Socialists, emphasised the importance of the event and conveyed the greetings of Marco Pannella - who was unable to attend due to another meeting with the Anti-Prohibitionist Organisation in Washington, USA. The federal counsellors of the Radical Party, Eros Bicic and Vitomar Cesmadziski, formed part of the radical delegation.

The decisions taken at the congress confirm the willingness of the socialist youth to transform themselves into an independent and liberal-democratic party and to participate autonomously at the next elections during spring in Slovenia. It is to be noted that the congress maintained that it would have to insert a further norm to establish the transpartite character of the "new" political formation in the statutory reforms.

YUGOSLAVIA

END OCTOBER - MEETING WITH THE EXPONENTS OF THE RADICAL PARTY MARINO BUSDACHIN AND VITOMAR CESMADZISKY WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SOCIAL FEDERAL ALLIANCE AND WITH THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SOCIALIST YOUTH OF YUGOSLAVIA IN RELATION TO THE LEGAL RECOGNITION OF THE EXISTENCE OF RADICALS IN YUGOSLAVIA AND OF THEIR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA-BRATISLOVIA

6 November 1989 - THE PROCESS OF DISSIDENT JAN CARNOGURSKY OPENED IN BRATISLOVIA, WHO RUNS THE RISK OF UPTO THREE YEARS IN PRISON. Born on 1 January 1944, Jan Carnogursky, lawyer, was obliged to discontinue his profession, and work for years as a farm worker. He was arrested together with Miroslav Kusy on 18 October 1988 on the charges of having incited the rebellion against the Republic. The charges against Carnogursky and Kusy were modified many times in the course of the inquest, until it returned back to the original accusation, which provides for a penalty of reclusion upto three years.

DRUGS

WASHINGTON, 9 NOVEMBER 1989 - GINO DEL GATTO, DOCTOR, FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-PROHIBITIONIST LEAGUE AND SECRETARY OF THE RADICAL ANTI-PROHIBITIONIST COORDINATION WAS CALLED TO BE A PART OF THE COUNCIL OF THE DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION, THE AMERICAN ORGANISATION FOR DRUG POLICY REFORMS.