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CITIZENS DEMAND THE PUBLIC TRIAL WITH CPT. VLADIMÍR HUČÍN

At our cost, for our sake, for the sake of our children, for safer future of our country, and the developing grounds of new Europe

In the early 1990s, Mr. Vladimír Hučín was recommended by the Confederation of Political Prisoners and the Club of Engaged Impartial into the newly established Security Information Service (BIS), for is civic attitudes and brave active resistance against the previous communist government and its supporters. Whilst in BIS, he fulfilled his responsibilities excellently, with best ratings. He worked in the 4th department of BIS, focusing on the issues of extremism and terrorism.

In the early post-communist period, many important documents and lots of compromising evidence of the activities of important persons of the communist era were destroyed, with the passive attendance of government institutions. Captain Vladimír Hučín, during his activities in civic committees and as the BIS officer, managed to save many of those important documents and hence revealed a lot of interesting facts at the time. Before long, he was displaced from the office, and arrested shortly after. Now the above-mentioned documents protect his life, but also are the cause of many problems. Those who prefer to keep their past in secrecy have tried for years to find and destroy the documents, never hesitating to break the law in their struggle; however, they have failed so far. The documents show many links between the communist organizations and contemporary institutions.

Many people who used to be, or are, active in public are afraid of those documents, and try to keep the trial they with Cpt. Vladimír Hučín in secret, for the sake of the national security as they put it. However, the reality is different – it’s the national security that requires the trial to be public, so we – the citizens of this republic – know what has been, and is, going on in our country, and how its safety and future is compromised.

Most of the mass media are still under control of old institutions, so the information most of you get in this matter is biased. The confidential penal file of Cpt. Vladimír Hučín No. 1T312/2001 contains, in addition to illegal tapping, the names and criminal offences of former communists, collaborationists with the ancien regime, and secret police contributors currently in high positions in justice, police, state administration, etc. These people have affected the life of Vladimír Hučín, and they also affect the everyday life in the country and your own fates as well.

We, as signed below, have personally found Cpt. Vladimír Hučín to be straight, fair, and patriotic man of strong morals. We are honored to have become his friends, and help him as well as our home country.

His case is already well-known in the European Union as well, and the high EU officials have already become interested. Recently, we have presented the case, personally and in detail, to the EU Ombudsman Mr. Nikiforos Diamandouros, together with the related documents, some of which are available at www.hucin.com as well.

We believe that Cpt. Vladimír Hučín is sure to receive top-class honor of the government one day. He has served our country well, and he still does. Let us, then, also deserve our fellow citizen, Cpt. Vladimír Hučín. It’s our turn, citizens. There’s not much time left.

No real crimes can be kept in secret and protected by law TO LET THE EVIL WIN, JUST LET DECENT PEOPLE DO NOTHING AT ALL Join our request for the public trial

Prague, March 17, 2004

The Petition Committee:

Zbyněk Horváth, Zděnka Mašínová, Milan Paumer, František Přeslička, Jan Šinágl/Chairman

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Would you like to add your name to the signatories of this petition calling for fair and open process of court proceedings with Mr. Hucin? You can do so at:

www.hucin.sinagl.cz