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CZECH REPUBLIC/DENMARK: Jailed Danish youth bailed

01 November 2000

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A court has decided that the remaining protester jailed in Prague during protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank summit in September, can be released on bail. Mads Trmrup (18), was one of more than 800 people from across Europe arrested during the demonstrations (see Statewatch vol 10 no 5). His bail has been set at 170.000 Dkr (£14,000) which has been raised by voluntary donations. Trmrup is charged with attacking a police officer, but he denies the allegations. His case will be heard before a court in February next year. According to Danish newspaper reports, all of those arrested have now been freed, with Trmrup the last to be released. Through his lawyer he has appealed to the Czech president, Vaclav Havel, to be pardoned. No answer has been received from the former political prisoner's office. This is despite protests from the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs being handed directly to Havel by the Danish ambassador to the Czech Republic and demonstrations supported by MPs outside the Czech Embassy in Copenhagen. The brutal manner in which the Czech police treated the demonstrators during the summit - and especially after the protests had finished - highlighted the deeply authoritarian legal system in force.

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