Prague, March 10 (CTK) – A crowd of about 150 gathered at the rally called Voice for Tibet where Tibetan music and anthem were played outside the Chinese embassy in Prague yesterday.
The protesters signed a petition in support of human rights and paper messages were created that will be sent to the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India.
“The hope knows no fear. We are standing in the role of human rights advocates in Tibet,” a speaker said at the rally of the people many of whom were carrying Tibetan flags.
One of the banners said Czechs Support Tibet, featuring a portrait of former president Vaclav Havel flanked by Tibetan Dalai Lama.
The speakers said people in hundreds of squares in the Czech Republic and dozens of other countries were voicing solidarity with Tibet yesterday.
They whistled when it was said that President Milos Zeman and the Czech government had decided to collaborate with China, actively legitimising the Chinese regime.
At the close of the rally, people were laying lit-up candles at the metal barriers fencing the embassy of China.
This morning, the Chamber of Deputies observed a moment of silence in commemoration of the victims of the anti-Chinese uprising for the renewal of Tibet’s independence in 1959 at the proposal by Culture Minister Daniel Herman (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL).
The opposition TOP 09 lawmakers hung the Tibetan and the Taiwanese flags on their own yesterday.
Over 740 self-rule bodies and over 100 schools hoisted the Tibetan flag in the Czech Republic yesterday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is to visit Prague later this month. The Czech Republic is the only EU country he will visit on his way to the USA.
Demonstrations against his visit are being planned.
