Vaclav Havel

The former Czech president at the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba stated: "Cuba is a giant prison. We have to put up alarm bells around the walls. With every signature, every conference we make another step towards freedom in Cuba."

If anyone knows what it's like to live in a country that is a prison, it's the Czechs. Mr. Havel spent five years in a Russian gulag.

"I remember vividly what the support of the democratic world meant for me when I was persecuted and imprisoned in [communist] Czechoslovakia," he told The Prague Post. "I feel obliged to repay this debt to those who are in a similar situation now."

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Posted by Val Prieto at September 20, 2004 08:22 AM

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