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05/22/2007
The health of eight year old Ondra, who was severely abused by his own mother Klara Mauerova, is said to have improved. On Tuesday Ondra was released from hospital and returned to the children's home where he and his two siblings were placed after their mother was arrested. The fate of his alleged thirteen year old adopted sister Anna who mysteriously disappeared from the children's home 11 days ago remains uncertain. The latest information on the story indicates that the alleged 13-year old who had no identity papers was not the said Anna at all but a 34 year old woman who may have mental problems. The police are now investigating why the family passed her off as Anna and whether the alleged 13-year old sister ever existed.
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05/22/2007
Police statistics indicate that the number of children reported missing has been steadily increasing in recent years. Over 8,000 children were reported missing in the course of 2006. Six thousand of them ran away from orphanages and children's homes, often repeatedly, two thousand ran away from their parents. Fortunately, the police have a high success rate in tracing the vast majority of them. Ninety-eight percent of them were found safe and sound.
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05/22/2007
The ruling Civic Democratic Party's deputies met to thrash out their differences on the government proposed reform of public finances on Tuesday. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose cabinet needs the vote of every coalition deputy, said later that some of his party colleagues still had objections to the draft reforms but that progress had been made. Critics from party ranks argue that the Civic Democrats had made too many concessions to their coalition partners and were betraying their own policy programme. The Prime Minister has linked the future of his cabinet to this crucial reform package. Parliament is to vote on it at the beginning of June.
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05/22/2007
A court in Johannesburg on Tuesday rejected a proposal for fugitive Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir to be released from custody. The judge rejected the arguments of Mr Krejcir's defence that he had been detained in South Africa unlawfully and that the court was not qualified to rule on the case. The possibility that Mr Krejcir could be released on bail still exists however. Radovan Krejcir is wanted in the Czech Republic for extensive fraud and conspiracy to murder. The authorities have requested his extradition. Mr Krejcir fled the Czech Republic in 2005 and, having acquired Seychelles citizenship, made a new home for himself and his family on the island. He was arrested on an international arrest warrant when he tried to enter South Africa on a false passport.
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05/22/2007
Czech goalkeeper Jaroslav Drobny signed for Hertha Berlin from Bundesliga rivals VfL Bochum on a three year contract on Tuesday. The 27-year-old, a member of the Czech Republic side that won the Under-21 European title in 2002, had been at Bochum for just one season. Hertha finished 10th in the recently concluded German championship while Bochum finished two places ahead of them.
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05/21/2007
The Czech law is failing to protect the rights of children, who have been victims of crimes, a government committee on children's rights concluded. At a special meeting on Monday, the committee asked the cabinet minister responsible for minorities and human rights, Dzamila Stehlikova, to look into the possibility of amending the law to make it illegal to publish the names, photographs, and addresses of such children. The meeting was called in reaction to a recently uncovered child abuse case in which a single mother forced her eight-year old boy to stay in a broom cupboard. The boy's name, photograph, and even a video of him tied-up and naked have been all over the media.
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05/21/2007
Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whose country has already ratified the EU draft constitution, agrees with his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg that a new European agreement supported by all EU member states needs to be drawn up. On an official visit to Prague, Mr Moratinos said dialogue and debate played a crucial role in finding a joint position on the EU's future role. The two state representatives also discussed Washington's plans to station part of its missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic and their countries' positions on Cuba.
With regards to the US missile shield, Mr Schwarzenberg said it was no surprise that US lawmakers moved to cut the budget for the extension of the shield to Central Europe. Regarding Cuba, both men agreed that their countries' goals are the same but methods of achieving them differ. Spain prefers to take up the issue of human rights violations through dialogue with the Cuban government, while the Czech Republic has been pushing for Brussels to exert more political pressure on the island's totalitarian regime.
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05/21/2007
The opposition Social Democrats have published a booklet in which they call the current government scandalous, full of errors, vulgar, and obscure. The assessment of the first one hundred days of the ruling coalition of the Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and the Greens was presented to the public on Monday. As examples, it names several controversial remarks and gestures made by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and points to the current allegations of corruption against Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek. The Social Democrats also criticise plans to privatise hospitals and shares in the energy giant CEZ and assess whether all pre-election promises to the general public have been kept.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said he challenges Prime Minister Topolanek to a televised debate on the government's reform plan.
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05/21/2007
Two Roma women, attending a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg on Monday, described in emotional detail how they had been sterilised against their will in Czech hospitals, AFP news agency reports. Helena Baloghova and Elena Gorolova gave moving testimony as they presented a photographic exhibition created by an association of women victims of forced sterilisation. The group, based in the Moravian town of Ostrava, is calling for compensation and a public apology for illegal sterilisations of Roma patients. A Czech expert at the Strasbourg meeting said the problem of the sterilised women remained unresolved since the Czech government had yet to review ombudsman Otakar Motejl's conclusions on the subject.
In November 2005, a Czech court ordered a hospital to apologise to 22-year-old Roma woman Helena Ferencikova for sterilizing her without her consent, but it ruled she did not qualify for compensation.
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05/21/2007
A new opinion poll suggests that the number of people in the Czech Republic who are satisfied with the political situation is on the rise. Although the study indicates that only 24 percent of the population was happy last month, it is three percent higher than the month before and eight percent higher than in January. In the poll conducted by the STEM agency, 68 percent of respondents were pleased with the performance of President Vaclav Klaus. The support for the government was much lower, 34 percent, and only 32 percent for Parliament.
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