VLADIMIR Derer, secretary of the Campaign for Democracy Labour Party, has put out a call for local Labour Parties to bombard the Czechoslovak Embassy with protests over the prison treatment of Petr Uhl and other Charter 77 activists in jail.
Eastern Europe Solidarity Campaign, Derer has sent a letter to CLPs informing them of the Husak regime's attempt to destroy the health of the prisoners and asking them to act in defence of the Chartists.
He told Socialist Challenge: "The labour movement here must stand that Petr Uhl, the OLICT Chartists dissidents, not a small group out of step with society. They have spoken out for aims that the overwhelming majority of people in Czechoslovakia agree with 'And that's why the regime wants to break unem.
Czech workers the lesson that it can destroy even the most fighters tor democratic rights.
"The British labour movement has denounced the imprisonment of the Charter 77 leaders last October;' he added.
'We must tollow this up remorseless pressure on the embassy here, first to stop the savage prison treatment, then to force release of Petr Uhl and all the other political prisoners.
*A book of Petr Uhl's writings has been published in France. Two hundred pounds has so far been raised towards the f500 needed to publish an English edition.
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