Algerian Paper Launches Petition

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374, Grays Inn Rd,, London,W.C,1. price- 5/~) has printed a petition for clemency for the thirteen men condemmad to death in the Ivory Coast after a secret trial, It invited all its readers to sign the petition, cut it out, and send it to the President of the Ivory Coast. The petition is as follows: “To President Houphoust-Boigny, Government Palace, Abidjan, Ivory Coast:

Mr, President,

We are writing to you to ask for a pardon for our thirteen African brothers condemMed to death by your special tribunal sitting in secret. We are doing this because we are for the defence of fundamental freedoms in Africa, for freedom of expression, of opinion, of association and assembly, and the right to a fair trial,

We are doing it because we believe that it is impossible for you to take part in the meeting of African heads of state at Addis Ababa and to work there for the unity and freedom of Africa so long as you have not renounced -the~idea: of killing militant Africans in your prisonss,....e."