Rallies For Decent Slovakia to Be Held in Eight Slovak Towns on Friday

Bratislava, November 16 (TASR) - Rallies organised by the 'For a Decent Slovakia' initiative will take place in eight Slovak towns, as well as London and Dublin on Friday, Juraj Seliga and Karolina Farska of the initiative told TASR on the same day. In Slovakia the rallies will be held in Bratislava, Banska Bystrica, Kosice, Prievidza (Trencin region), Ziar nad Hronom (Banska Bystrica region), Zilina, Levice (Nitra region) and Kezmarok (Presov region). "The rally in Bratislava will start at 5 p.m. at SNP Square. Students from initiative called 'We Do Care' will meet at 4.15 p.m. at Safarikovo Square to march to SNP Square from there," said organisers of the Bratislava rally. Activists, representatives of the student movement from November 1989 [Velvet Revolution], journalists and several actors will address participants in the rally. A lot of people have expressed their support for the rally organisers since the information was published that the police is questioning them based on an anonymous criminal complaint alleging they attempted to orchestrate a state coup in the services of financier George Soros. Seliga and Farska said that almost €500,000 has arrived to a transparent account within 36 hours and that the sum is still growing. The organisers said that their Thursday's (November 15) interrogations have been cancelled. "We have no information what will be further procedure by the National Criminal Agency {NAKA) or the prosecutor's office. We don't know whether they will continue summoning us for interrogation either," they posted on a social network. The organisers reject claims that they would be directed by somebody, paid from abroad or striving to orchestrate a state coup. Two international journalist organisations - the European Centre for Freedom of the Press and Media (ECPMF) and Reporters Without Frontiers (RSF) have also called on Slovak authorities to stop questioning the activists. They were shocked that the Slovak institutions let themselves to be dragged into criminal proceedings against brave young people who demand justice for the murders of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova. ko