Extreme-Right politics in Czech Republic
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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)
Investigation urged into coercive sterilisation of Romani women
Following the submission of evidence compiled by the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) to the UN Committee Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading Treatment or Punishment, CAT recommended that the State party 'investigate claims of involuntary sterilizations, using medical and personnel records and urge the complainants to the degree feasible, to assist in substantiating the allegations'.
21 September 2004 (175 words)
Foreigners allege massive discrimination
A survey of foreigners suggests that in many areas of life - from getting treatment in hospitals, opening bank accounts to extending a visa - massive difficulties are being presented.
22 July 2004 (117 words)
ECRI highlights treatment of Roma
The European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance has published a report on the Czech Republic in which it comments that there have been few noticeable improvements in the situation of Roma, whose marginalisation from mainstream society continues through their 'ghettoisation' in substandard housing complexes on the outskirts of cities.
8 June 2004 (95 words)
Roma human rights victory prompts media vilification
The Roma family Cervenak from Usti nad Labem and their lawyer are now the object of vilification in the media because they won a case in the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg against the Czech Republic.
2 August 2003 (200 words)
Neo-Nazi stabs Roma to death in disco attack
On 20 July 2001, in the town of Svitavy, a neo-Nazi stabbed a Romani man to death after objecting to the presence of the Rom at the local disco.
1 August 2002 (78 words)
Racial violence and the courts
An investigation by the daily newspaper Mladá indicates that the courts are continuing to downplay the importance of racially-motivated crimes where Roma are concerned.
1 August 2002 (97 words)
Far-Right fail to register in general election
Two extreme-Right parties, the Republikani Miroslava Sladka, and its splinter group 'Republikani', put forward candidates in the June general election, which brought the Social Democrats to power.
1 August 2002 (68 words)
Statistics show far-Right violence increase
Newly released figures show a 15% increase in the number of far-right incidents in 2000.
1 January 2002 (107 words)
Skinheads jailed for Roma killing
Two skinheads in the town of Ostrova were jailed for the manslaughter of a 40-year old Roma man in 1998.
1 January 2002 (80 words)
Prague University lecturer invites far-Right speakers
The dean of the philosophy department at Prague's Charles University has reprimanded an academic at the institution for inviting far-right leaders to speak at a seminar.
1 January 2002 (169 words)
Government action against neo-Nazis
At last, action against skinhead concerts
1 January 2002 (473 words)
Concern about skinhead attacks in Most
Since August 1999, 13 Roma men have been employed by the authorities in Most to patrol the streets in order to report to the police incidents of drug abuse, rioting and racial violence.
1 April 2001 (161 words)
Decin district police forced into action
Following the intervention of the Romani Christian Assembly, which wrote to the deputy prime minister, the police reopened its investigation into a skinhead attack on three Romani men in a village near the northern Czech town of Decin.
1 August 2000 (106 words)
Police, criminal justice system and anti-Roma violence
According to the ERRC, while international and domestic pressure has resulted in some judges inflicting harsher sentences for racially motivated crime, the Czech judicial system as a whole continues to downplay the seriousness of racially motivated attacks.
1 August 2000 (309 words)
Government finally acts against ghetto wall in Usti nad Labem
Following pressure from the EU, which threatened to block the Czech Republic's application for membership, a wall designed to segregate Roma residents from other Czechs has finally been demolished in the small northern Bohemian town of Usti nad Labem.
1 March 2000 (244 words)
More petitions against Roma
In June 1999, about 100 people in the northern Moravian town of Krnov signed a petition against Roma, complaining of Roma congregating on streets, listing to loud music, leaving mess and generally spoiling the neighbourhood.
1 March 2000 (138 words)
Moravia - concern at anti-Roma violence
Jeseníc police accused of skinhead collusion
1 March 2000 (194 words)
Czech courts refuse to acknowledge racial motivation
One of the men accused of forcing the Roma, Helena Biháriová into the river Labe where she drowned has had his sentence reduced on appeal from 6 years six months to 15 months imprisonment for disturbing the peace.
1 March 2000 (109 words)
Skinheads attack officials during race trial
During a court recess in a racially motivated assault trial in Karvina, northern Moravia, skinheads threw eggs and tomatoes at a senior official in the office of President Havel and the legal representative for one of the victims.
1 March 2000 (105 words)
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