Policing and criminal justice system 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)
Roma dies in police custody
On 19 June 2002, Vladimir Pecha, a 23-year-old Romani man, allegedly jumped from a window of a Brno police station and later died from his injuries.
29 July 2003 (161 words)
Roma family allege police rape of their son
The father of a young Roma man alleges that police in western Bohemia forced his son to drink beer and vodka and to take pills which resulted in the youth - who had been stripped - losing consciousness.
1 August 2002 (92 words)
Concern at police harassment in Kosice
Romanies in Kosice are in danger of police harassment and racism, claims the Romany Reform Youth Movement.
1 July 1999 (119 words)
Supreme Court rules that killers of Tibor Danihel must face retrial
The light sentences imposed on four men accused of murdering the Roma, Tibor Danihel, in Pisek in 1993 have been challenged by the Supreme Court which, in a significant move, sent the skinheads for retrial in July.
1 March 1999 (112 words)
State attorney declares killing of Helena Biháriová was not racially motivated
Two men have been charged in connection with the killing of Helena Biháriová.
1 March 1999 (75 words)
Court issues unprecedented expulsion order against convicted Czech Roma
A district court in Teplice has ruled that a Czech Romani man should at the end of a nine-year prison sentence be expelled from the country, despite the fact that he has held Czech citizenship since February 1998.
1 March 1999 (126 words)
Civil libertarians highlight anti-Roma violence in Písek
According to the Czech Council for Nationalities Ad Hoc Working Group for Romani Nationality Affairs, there is evidence of an ongoing pattern of police abuse of Roma and other racially motivated violence in the southern town of Písek.
1 February 1998 (127 words)
Investigation into Roma death in custody criticised
AI has criticised the police investigation into the death of the 20-year-old Roma, Martin Cervenak.
1 October 1996 (160 words)
More Roma police recruits sought
The head of the Council of Nationalities, Egur Nemec, has announced that Roma are to be accepted into the police force without the training usually given to recruits but will be expected to comply with the qualifying test during their service in the force.
1 January 1996 (92 words)
Far-Right leader arrested and released
The head of the Republican party, Miroslav Sladek, was released from police custody after being charged with attacking police officers and creating a public disorder during a demonstration in Prague on 28 October.
1 March 1995 (69 words)
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