Czech EU ambassador rejects commissioner’s criticism regarding sexual arousal testing of asylum seekers

Czech ambassador to the EU Milena Vicenová rejects the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecila Malmstrom’s criticism of the Czech Republic’s practice of using sexual arousal testing to determine whether applicants who seek asylum on grounds of being gay are actually homosexual. Mrs. Vicenová said that phallometric testing was no longer in use in the Czech Republic and that the criticism suggested the practice was widely employed. She said this was untrue and that the tests had only been used in a small number of cases. In December of last year, the EU issued a statement that suggested the practice could be in violation of its convention on human rights.