Court hands ten-year prison sentence to police officer in aggravated assault case

On Wednesday, an upper circuit appeals court in Olomouc handed a ten-year prison sentence to a police officer charged with aggravated assault against a Vietnamese citizen, overturning a previous verdict that sentenced the man to 3.5 years. The police officer is the main perpetrator of a brutal attack against a Vietnamese man during a police operation. The man later died from the injuries he suffered at the hands of the police. The incident, which happened in 2009, caused outrage in the Czech Republic’s Vietnamese community.