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Dear friends

Cannabis Sans Frontieres calls for solidarity action with Swiss hemp pioneer Bernard
rappaz who has been detained last saturday 20 March, and who has immediately
gone into a hunger strike which he is prepared to fulfill until the end if necessary..

Best wishes

Joep

Bernard Rappaz, hemp farmer from Valais, Switzerland, was detained by police on 20
March.

Bernard has been accused (and condemned by new retroactive laws) of illegal trade
in cannabis, but since he is one of the country’s leading hemp industrialists and
forefighters of the Freedom to Farm, he is wellknown as a pioneer for the use of
hemp in biological agriculture and renewable energy. Those "qualities" made him a
genuine target of authorities from the Valais county.

We’re inviting all of you supporters to send the following sample letter to all indicated
Swiss authorities contact (see below) and call for people to support Bernard by
joining his hungerstrike for one, two, three days at max. Because this movement
needs peoples in anger, not starving to death.

Like in 2006, another « Empty stomach solidarity chain » started on Monday,
March22th 2010.

With ENCOD support, Cannabis Sans Frontières (cannabis with no borders) initiated
the mouvement. As a response to media black-out in France about the Bernard
Rappaz case, but also in order to put pressure on swiss authorities.

Immediately, people from different places worldwide offered to participate, as well as
to regularly send letters to the Swiss authorities in order to ask for an exceptionnal
right to reprieve, or to decide an amnesty, or at least to suspend his penalty until his
last call for a review of the trial is accepted. All we ask is simply to end drug war
persecutions, first those like this one.

We need a large support, in order to ensure that Bernard’s health will not be put in
danger, as his last hungerstrike occured during 73 days, due to his motivation
against all injustices caused by prohibition rules.

To ensure your participation to this initiative, please follow up this :

- 1 - Send a message of solidarity to Bernard : Bigger his mails will be abundant,
faster swiss authorities will react.

Bernard RAPPAZ - Political prisonner

Pénitencier de Crêtelongue

3977 Granges / VS

- 2 ­ Copy the sample letter and accomodate it as you prefer, and send it by postal or
fax/email to the Minister of Justice and Police, Ms Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf,
conseiller fédéral - Cheffe du DFJP (Minister of Justice), Département fédéral de
justice et police, Palais fédéral ouest, CH-3003 Berne and to all contacts mentionned
(see all contacts attached list).

- 3 ­ Register your participation on http://supportrappaz.org or by posting a message
to indicating your "empty stomach" message of solidarity (sending your date/place
and engagements)

- 4 - Join the collective solidarity fund to ensure that "Oasis" Farm will not be sold :
less than 20 days remain to gather 60 000 SFr (less than 40 000 euros), which are
still lacking to purchase collectively Bernard Rappaz’s farm.

Please send your donations, to this bank account : c.c.p. 19-10613-5 / Bernard
Rappaz, Ferme Oasis, Chemin des Iles 50, CH 1907 Saxon, Switzerland

- 5 ­ Join the global demo on April 10th : Register your cities local events. At the
occasion of Swiss federal state chairwoman, Ms Doris Leuthard’s birthday, we want to
recall her about Bernard Rappaz’s case who will be starving since 22 days !

This date could be also choose for an extended purpose, such as «to end drug war
dealth penalty, mass gangsters mutual assassinations, as well as soft killing targetted
individuals as Marc Emery (Canada), Dana Beal (USA), Bernard Rappaz ( Swiss
Confederation), André Fürst (Swiss Confederation), Chakib El Khayari (Marocco),
Maksim Popov (Ouzbekistan), and so many, too many... ».

For your demonstration, find the embassy of the Swiss confederation nearest to you
<http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/fr/home/reps.html>

Thanks for your support !

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Sample letter to address to Swiss authorities

Dear Minister of Justice,

I request your attention on the case of Bernard Rappaz, a Valais’s county citizen from
Switzerland, a hemp farmer, on hungerstrike since he enterred in jail on march 20th.
This is an ultimate protest against his judgement last november 2008, confirmed by
the Federal Court in October 2009, rather than to have his case considered since he
introduced a demand to review his trial. He has been accused and condemned for
illegal trade of cannabis. Due to different laws among swiss counties, he has received
a singular heavy condemnation. His jugement is made an exemple. This only
underlines a targetted persecution against the "Gandhi of hemp".

This is an emergency. Nobody can change his mind. Bernard Rappaz is ready to die.
But his death must be avoided, by a simple human approach. Does Bernard Rappaz
need to die to bury the fight for a rational cannabis policy that protects youth, of
which he is a pioneer ?

I ask you to do all what can be done under your power in order to stop as soon as
possible his hungerstrike, and set Bernard Rappaz free. You have the power to
suspend his detention until his last call for a review of his trial is stated. No need to
mention that you could also considered an exceptionnal right to reprieve.

Time has come to look into a more efficient way to fight against drugs than the
current one which only prosecutes and puts in jail, therewith minimizing the will of
authotities to solve real problems?

I also announce you my decision to associate myself to his hunger strike as
participant of an international « empty stomach solidarity chain » (precise your
engagement : dates/place), initiated by Cannabis with no Borders (Cannabis Sans
Frontières).

Sincerely yours,

Name - Signature

************

To be sent to :

- Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf <
http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/fr/misc/conform.0183.html?pageToMail=
/content/ejpd/fr/home/die_oe/kontakt>, conseiller fédéral - Cheffe du DFJP (Minister
of Justice)

Département fédéral de justice et police

Palais fédéral ouest

CH-3003 Berne

******** Copy to : ********

- Corina Casanova <http://www.bk.admin.ch/org/00490/index.html?lang=fr> : -
Chancelière de la Confédération (Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Chancellerie fédérale,

Palais fédéral Ouest

CH-3003 Berne

Tél. +41 (0)31 322 37 91

Fax +41 (0)31 322 37 06

- Pascale Bruderer Wyss <http://www.pascale-bruderer.ch/kontakt/>, présidente du
Conseil national 2009/2010

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- Erika Forster-Vannini <
http://www.parlament.ch/f/organe-mitglieder/praesidenten/praesidenten-
aktuell/nrp-09-10/Pages/default.aspx>, Présidente du Conseil des Etats en 2009/2010

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Then, send a copy of your solidarity action with Bernard Rappaz, to inform your
Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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