- Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: PRAGUE STUDENTS STRIKE ENDS.
- Date: 22nd November 1968
- Summary: 1. GV EXT.. UNIVERSITY 0.05 2. SV & CU FLAG TAKEN DOWN AND FOLDED (3 SHOTS) 0.21 3. SCU PLACARDS TAKEN DOWN FROM DOORS 0.26 4. SV BEDDING TAKEN FROM BUILDING 0.32 5. SV PLACARD TAKEN DOWN 0.37 6. SV BEDDING TAKEN TO CAR 0.42 7. CV INT.. STUDENTS SEATED (2 SHOTS) 0.50 8. SV STUDENT READS LETTER FROM WORKERS 0.54 9. SV & CU STUDENTS APPLAUD (3 SHOTS) 1.07 10. GV STUDENTS VOTE BY RAISING THEIR ARMS 1.15 11. SV STUDENTS LEAVE BUILDING WITH BELONGINGS (2 SHOTS) 1.30 12. SV STUDENTS WALK AWAY FROM BUILDING. 1.34 Initials GEP/VS/MR/EH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 7th December 1968 13:00
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- Location: PRAGUE/CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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- Country: Czech Republic Czechoslovakia
- Reuters ID: LVA4BJ3LBNOWSAVRWZPN6TS7TJJ1
- Story Text: CZECHOSLOVAK STUDENTS YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) LEFT THE PRAGUE UNIVERSITY FACULTY BUILDINGS WHICH THEY HAD OCCUPIED SINCE MONDAY MORNING. THE MASSIVE SIT-IN STRIKE WAS CALLED IN SUPPORT OF THE REFORMIST ACTION PROGRAMME, DRAWN UP LAST APRIL BY SUPPORTERS OF PARTY LEADER ALEXANDER DUBCEK, DEMANDING FREEDOM OF PRESS, SPEECH, ASSEMBLY AND TRAVEL.
THE THREE DAY DEMONSTRATION WAS TO HAVE ENDED A DAY EARLIER. IT WAS PROLONGED FOR AN EXTRA SIXTEEN HOURS DESPITE A GOVERNMENT APPEAL TO THE STUDENTS BECAUSE OF THE DANGERS ARISING FROM THE SITUATION.
THE DEMONSTRATION ENDED PEACEFULLY AND NO INCIDENTS WERE REPORTED AFTERWARDS. STUDENT ORGANISERS TOLD THE DEMONSTRATORS TO DISPERSED AS SOON AS THEY LEFT THE ARTS, LAW AND PHILOSOPHY FACULTY BUILDINGS, WHERE THEY HAD BEEN CAMPING IN LECTURE ROOMS.
WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE STUDENTS LEFT IN SMALL GROUPS CARRYING THEIR LUGGAGE, SOME OF THE ORGANISERS THEMSELVES TOOK DOWN THE STRIKE NOTICES THAT HAD BEEN POSTED ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
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