Asylum seekers and refugees in Czech Republic
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Prague: refugee beaten during identity check
A refugee from Belarus has alleged that he was beaten by a police officer near Prague's Old Town Square so badly that he was hospitalised for thirteen days.
13 December 2004 (149 words)
Opposition Civic Democrats play the race card
Refugee agencies have criticised the opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) for proposals to toughen rules on asylum seekers they describe as a populist move likely to heighten xenophobia.
22 October 2004 (153 words)
New asylum 'fast-track' law
The Czech Austrian border initiative came shortly after the Czech parliament passed an asylum law to tighten up on the time in which it takes the government to process asylum applications.
1 October 2001 (62 words)
Joint Czech Austrian initiative against illegal migration
In May, the governments of the Czech Republic and Austria announced the creation of a new expert team to fight illegal migration by increased border measures as well as measures against smuggling rings.
1 October 2001 (106 words)
Concern about conditions at Cerveny Ujezd refugee camp
Over 100 refugees have sent a letter to the interior ministry complaining about human rights violations at the Cerveny Ujezd refugee camp in northern Bohemia.
1 January 2001 (109 words)
Czech airline accused of racial discrimination
According to the weekly publication Respekt, the Czech national airline CSA has been marking passenger lists to Britain with a G - the English initial for Gypsy - beside the name of any 'swarthy or black-haired customers'.
1 March 2000 (266 words)
Citizenship law amended
The upper house of the Czech parliament has approved amendments to the controversial 1993 Czech citizenship law, thereby granting citizenship to former citizens of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic who were not citizens of the Czech Republic but were on the territory on 31 December 1993.
1 March 2000 (195 words)
New research into detention conditions for asylum-seekers and migrants
The Berlin-based research organisation Flucht und Migration (FFM) has released a preliminary report into its investigation of the Balková deportation prison and the reception centre for asylum-seekers in the Cerveny Ujezd refugee camp where those lucky enough to be considered for asylum are transferred.
1 November 1999 (387 words)
Canada reintroduces visa requirement
The reimposition in October 1998 of the visa requirement for all Czechs travelling to Canada has been bitterly attacked by the foreign minister, who says he may consider retaliatory measures.
1 July 1999 (63 words)
Afghani protest prevents deportation to Moldavia
Visa free travel between the Czech Republic and Moldavia may be stopped after 106 Afghani refugees prevented their deportation to Moldavia from the Czech Republic by opening the emergency exits of the plane which had just brought them from Moldavia.
1 July 1999 (83 words)
Lack of citizenship rights linked to institutionalised racism
According to Linda Grant, writing in the Guardian, since the 'Velvet Revolution' and the creation of the new Czech Republic state in 1993 the position of Roma has worsened immeasurably with institutionalised racism enshrined across the land.
1 March 1999 (99 words)
Police speak of Albanian exodus
According to Czech police, hundreds of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo are trying to reach Germany via a human-smuggling pipeline running through the former Czechoslovakia.
1 March 1999 (53 words)
Czech anger over Schengen accords
Czech newspapers have criticised the whole way in which the Schengen accords discriminate against Czechs.
1 June 1995 (107 words)
Asylum-seekers expelled from refugee centres
Following amendments to asylum laws that took effect on 1 January, the Interior Ministry informed 120 asylum-seekers in refugee centres that they would be evicted.
1 May 1994 (149 words)
Numbers of foreigners concerns Czech government
In the Czech Republic, the government has expressed concern about what it describes as a 'swelling' foreign population.
1 December 1993 (190 words)
Czech citizenship laws discriminate against Gypsies
The case of Vera Balogava, a 16-year-old Czech-born Romany girl, who has been forced to go to Slovakia to give birth, has highlighted the discriminatory nature of the new Czech citizenship laws.
1 October 1993 (200 words)
Curfew against Gypsies
In the Slovakian village of Spisske Podhradi, an 11pm-4.30pm curfew has been imposed on 'gypsies and other suspicious persons'.
1 October 1993 (63 words)
Tough new frontier controls
The Czech Republic is closing down its frontiers by imposing visas for nationals from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Bosnia-Herzegovina and from four republics of the former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Georgia and Tadjikstan).
1 October 1993 (128 words)
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