Free speech protesters at Vietnam PM's arrival in Warsaw

"We want to remind the Polish Prime Minister of the ideals of solidarity and the support Poland received in the world on its way to freedom," said the organizers. The Association of Freedom of Speech, the Committee of the Defense of Workers in Vietnam and the Association for Democracy in Vietnam reminded Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński that Vietnam is a communist dictatorship with several hundred political prisoners. At the request of the Vietnamese embassy, police ordered the protesters to move further away and the leaders of the associations now face charges of organizing an illegal gathering. Moreover, during a joint press conference of both Prime Ministers a Vietnamese opposition figure and journalist of Radio Free Asia was removed from the meeting at the request of the embassy. (Gazeta Wyborcza, September 15-16, p. 4) A.K.