Jan Bednar's health conditions are deteriorating
Prague, 25.5.2008
Jan Bednar's health conditions are deteriorating. He is on his 13th day of hunger strike against the military occupation
of the Czech Republic by the United States, part of the Star Wars project. The medical team, his friends and family and
sympathizers from all over the world have pleaded with him to stop. Nevertheless he is determined to continue.
"There are no signs that the Czech government is willing to open dialogs on this issue or any official statement by the
European Parliament" he repeated this morning.
Sympathy and support for the pacifist Czech grows daily:
Former Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Jan Kavan paid the protesters a visit, as well as other intellectuals and
politicians. Protests in support of the Czech democracy and against Europe's nuclear rearmament policies increase daily:
uncountable solidarity fasts, are continuing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, České Budějovice, Brunswick,
Copenhagen, Florence, London, Malaga, Milan, New York, Bologna, Paris, Toulouse, Trieste,Turin and have now reached
Sidney. More than a thousand people sign the www.nonviolence.cz online petition everyday.
European reporters are arriving in the Czech Republic to cover this new Prague Spring but national TV continues its
biased course. Solidarity messages pour in daily from hundreds of organizations and personalities such as: Noam Chomsky,
Dario Fo and Franca Rame Giorgio Schultze, Giulietto Chiesa (European Parliament member), Luisa Morgantini (Vice
President of the European Parliament), Nichi Vendola, president of Puglia Region in Italy, French bishop Jacques Gaillot
and Pulitzer prize winner Chris Hedges.
Unlimited hunger strike today: Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar in Prague since May 13, Dino Mancarella in Trieste since May 14,
Federica Fratini Isabel Torres, Eduardo Calizza in Rome since May 19, José Alvarez in Spain since May 22. They have been
joined today by Bruce Gagnon and the Korean Sung-Hee Choi in the USA and Gareth Smith in Australia and Joaquin
Valenzuela in Bologna.
The Humanist movement is a worldwide movement of volunteers working together for a nonviolent change towards a more just
world. It originated in the late 1960s in Argentina and since that time has spread across the world.
ENDS