Human rights minister slams broadcasts of communist-era TV news

The minister for human rights and minorities, Michael Kocáb, has criticised public broadcaster Czech Television for showing communist-era news bulletins. Czech Television’s CT24 news channel has been broadcasting daily news from 25 years ago for the last three years. Mr Kocáb on Wednesday issued a statement saying it was just as indefensible as if German TV had screened news broadcasts from the Nazi era two decades later, adding that the communist-era bulletins were shown without any explanation of the historical context. Czech Television has refused to comment.