Christian Democrat leader Jiří Čuněk to meet U.S. ambassador to Prague

Christian Democrat leader Jiří Čunek will meet U.S. ambassador to Prague Richard Graber next Friday to discuss some controversial passages of the annual report on human rights that was published by the U.S. Department of State earlier this month. The report mentioned that Mr Čunek was forced to step down as a minister over alleged bribe-taking during his term as the mayor of Vestín, a town in North Moravia; it also highlighted Mr Čunek’s forced resettling of several Roma families out of the town. After the Christian Democratic leader criticized the report for lack of accuracy, the U.S. ambassador offered to meet Mr Čunek to discuss the issue. The U.S. Department of State report on human rights was also criticized by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek; he said that a country which allows the torture of prisoners could hardly preach about human rights breaches in the Czech Republic.