Greenpeace occupied the spot height 718 on the western edge of the Brdy military district, an area closed to the public, on Monday. Although the military called their action unlawful and surrounded the hill with patrols, about 60 people have turned up among the protesters since, often bringing cakes and other food. At the weekend, mayors of some towns in Brdy's vicinity and maybe some lower house deputies are reportedly to visit the protest site. The visitors who set off for the protest site in reaction to Greenpeace's appeals, Gasparovic signs Slovak controversial press law ...
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radar treaty to include chapter on link with NATO ... may be fined up to 3,000 crowns for an offence, as the military district can be entered only with a permit issued by the district management. "We're glad if people visit us in order to express support to us...By entering the area, people commit an offence and may be fined for it. We highly appreciate their position," protester Jan Pinos said. At present, about 15 protesters stay at the spot height 718, including three mountaineers staying on platforms fixed up in the trees. "This is an international team comprising a Czech man, a Swiss man and a Slovak woman," Freidinger said. The activists continue building a wooden bridge, which they say would unite people, unlike the radar. The other ongoing protest is the photo-blockage. Greenpeace has called on all people to have themselves photographed along with a flyer reading "My aim is not to be aimed at." "More and more snaps are coming in...we have about 480 of them now," said Greenpeace spokeswoman Lenka Borakova. The Czech centre-right government has been negotiating with the USA about the installation of the radar base in Brdy, part of the planned missile defence shield, for about a year in spite of the protests of the left with opposition and a majority of Czechs. According to the latest information, the two bilateral treaties concerning the project might be signed by the two countries' foreign ministers in June. ($1=16.221 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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