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World Tibet Network News Friday, October 4, 1996

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2. Czech protests against human rights abuse in China, Tibet (CTK)

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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
=46oreign 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.

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Articles in this Issue:

1. A new prisoner died in Jail (CTK)
2. Czech protests against human rights abuse in China, Tibet (CTK)
3. Croats fast in support of Tibetan autonomy (HINA)
4. Tibet's yaks, treasure on roof of world (Reuter)
5. Tuberculous centre built in Lhasa (XINHUA)
6. Nepal, China to jointly save environment (UPI)
7. H.R.1561 - Foreign Relations Authorization Act, fiscal years 1996 and 1997 (enrolled bill (sent to president)

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