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12/20/2023
The government has approved a change in the definition of rape in Czech law. While up to now it has meant forcibly coerced sexual intercourse, in future it will be defined as non-consensual sex.
Justice Minister Pavel Blažek, who put forward the bill, said on Wednesday that he had not previously been convinced of the usefulness of this change but had revised his position after a number of discussions in the last year.
The bill states that refusal of sexual intercourse can be expressed verbally or non-verbally, such as by gestures, crying or adopting a defensive stance.
Rape will only be investigated in the case of intercourse; other types of forced sex acts will be classified as a sexual attack.
The matter must be considered by both houses of Parliament and signed off on by the president.
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12/20/2023
A male student attacked a member of staff with a knife at a secondary school in the town of Třebíč on Wednesday morning, a local police spokesperson told the Czech News Agency. The female staff member suffered minor injuries in the assault and nobody else was hurt.
The aggressor was apprehended by the police and the matter is now being investigated.
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12/20/2023
It should be mainly overcast with some rain in Czechia on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 6 degrees Celsius. Lower temperatures are expected on the following days.
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12/20/2023
World War II resistance member Ludmila Slavíková has died at the age of 102, the news website Novinky.cz reported, quoting the Czech Legionnaires Association. During the Nazi occupation the East Bohemia-born Mrs. Slavíková and her husband Josef took part in sabotage operations, destroying railway carriages, as members of the Bílá růže (White Rose) resistance group. They also worked with partisans and hid escaped prisoners.
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12/20/2023
The Czech Senate has approved the use of electronic identity documents instead of physical ones. The upper house on Wednesday passed a bill to that effect that had already gone through the Chamber of Deputies.
The amendment to the law on digital services means that users will be able to show their ID via a mobile app. However, such electronic ID will be voluntary and will not replace physical copies.
The change is due to come into effect next year.
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12/20/2023
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has stated that he sees the posters that were found depicting him in a body bag as a test of his resilience. "Showing me in a body bag, I understand that as a test to see if I can take what I dish out to others. And I can take it," he wrote in a press release.
Posters showing the interior minister in a body bag with the words "Vít Rakušan and his whole family" appeared by the side of a road near Český Brod in the Central Bohemian Region, not far from Kolín. "Dragging my family into this is disgusting and says a lot more about the author than about me," he wrote. The police are investigating the matter as disorderly conduct.
Last year, on the occasion of Czechoslovak Independence Day on October 28, a large banner depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin in a body bag along with the Czech and Ukrainian flags was unfurled and hung on the Interior Ministry building in Prague. Mr. Rakušan defended the installation at the time, saying it showed who is Czechia’s friend and who has made himself an enemy.
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12/19/2023
President Petr Pavel has appointed two new constitutional judges, lawyer Lucie Dolanská Bányaiová and Supreme Administrative Court judge Zdeněk Kühn, who took their oaths in a ceremony at Prague Castle on Tuesday afternoon. All 15 positions in the Czech Constitutional Court have now been filled after a long period when the president struggled to find candidates that both the Senate and the public would approve of.
Since Kateřina Šimáčková resigned as constitutional judge at the end of 2021, one position in the court has been empty, and with Radovan Suchánek's term coming to an end in November this year, the number of judges dropped to 13. The Senate approved Mr. Pavel's nomination of Robert Fremr in the summer, but he was later forced to give up his candidacy after information came to light about controversial rulings he had made during the communist era. Another of the president's proposed candidates, Pavel Simon, did not receive the backing of the Senate.
Since taking up office, Mr. Pavel has appointed five other constitutional judges in addition to the two new ones: Josef Baxa, Kateřina Ronovská, Jan Wintr, Daniela Zemanová and Veronika Křestťanová.
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12/19/2023
A bill increasing the number of voluntary overtime hours doctors are allowed to work, which caused hospital medics to go on partial strike this month, has been repealed. President Pavel signed the amendment cancelling the provision on Tuesday, and it will cease to apply at the end of this year.
The bill was drafted by the Labour and Health Ministers in response to the doctors' strike, over 6,000 of whom refused to work additional overtime in December in protest at the decision.
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12/19/2023
Wednesday is expected to be overcast and rainy, especially in the morning. Temperatures should hover around 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.
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12/19/2023
The Railway Administration will be going ahead with its plans to demolish and rebuild part of Prague's Vyšehrad Railway Bridge, Transport Minister Martin Kupka and the director of the Railway Administration Jiří Svoboda announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
The transport minister said that they were "fully aware" of the historical value of the current bridge and that the lattice riveted structure would not be removed under any circumstances. He stated that the goal is for the original steel structure to be transferred to another suitable location, which they are still looking for, where it could continue to serve as a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists. He added that the new bridge would be subject to an international assessment of its impact on the city's cultural heritage and negotiations with UNESCO are also planned.
The Railway Administration revealed the new design for the bridge at the end of last year based on an architectural competition, prompting a wave of criticism as the proposal envisaged the upper part of the bridge, the original heritage-listed steel structure, being entirely replaced.
The Railway Administration argues that the steel structure has been so damaged by corrosion that it doesn't make sense to try to preserve it. However, the Prague 5 and Prague 2 districts, the city government, and local residents, who have organised an online petition to save the bridge which has so far been signed by around 20,600 people, oppose the idea, as the bridge is protected by the National Heritage Institute and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
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