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04/03/2025
Rescuers were called to Dolní Břežany, near Prague, today to assist four people who had been poisoned by carbon monoxide. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other victims were hospitalized, according to Monika Nováková, a spokeswoman for the regional rescue service, speaking to the Czech News Agency.
According to the news outlet Novinky, the incident occurred in a family home and involved members of the same family.
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04/03/2025
Several dozen young activists protested on Wednesday evening at the CEVRO University building on Jungmannova Street in the centre of Prague against the major sponsors of the private university, the entrepreneurs Pavel Tykač and René Holeček. During the event, they handed out leaflets to applicants about what they see as the problematic financing of the university. They claim that a university striving for recognition in the academic world should not function through money from Mr. Tykač and Mr. Holeček.
According to a ČTK reporter, CEVRO representatives called on the activists to leave the private property. When some of them stayed, they called the police. The protesters then left at the police's request. "We had an Open Day, which was infiltrated by left-wing activists who placed banners and shouted slogans. We asked them to leave the building because they were disrupting our Open Day. They didn't listen, so we called a police patrol, who dealt with them," CEVRO University's marketing director Radek Ježdík told ČTK.
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04/03/2025
Hundreds of people protested in the centre of Prague on Wednesday afternoon against courts' decisions in cases of sexual violence, specifically opposing the imposition of low sentences and the trivialisation of violence against women. They also called on the state to make systemic changes in the protection of victims. The protest, attended by hundreds of people, took place on Malá Strana Square.
During the almost hour-long event, the participants recalled some recent cases in which, according to them, the domestic justice system repeatedly failed to protect the victim and often handed out only suspended sentences to the perpetrators. "We want to make it clear with this protest that we do not intend to tolerate such an approach," said the organisers. According to them, the low sentences are not an isolated failure of justice, but evidence of a deep problem in the Czech judiciary.
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04/02/2025
Former MP Dominik Feri is facing another charge of rape, Aleš Cimbala, a spokesman for the supervising Municipal Public Prosecutor's Office in Prague, announced today. The case concerns earlier testimony by a then seventeen-year-old young woman, whose complaint against the police's postponement of the case was upheld by the Constitutional Court last year. Mr. Feri is currently serving a three-year prison sentence for the rape of two other young women, one of whom was a minor, and another attempted rape. He has denied any guilt from the beginning.
The judges criticized the police for not investigating the the victim's claims more thoroughly, not asking her anything, and not properly recording her explanation. According to the court, the police did not try to secure electronic communication in which the young woman confronted Mr. Feri with his behaviour and demanded an apology. They also did not question a witness who allegedly knew about the incident.
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04/02/2025
The number of cyberattacks on companies and institutions increased by 4% year-on-year to 1,699 last year, while the reported damage from these attacks increased by 38% to 632 million crowns, police President Martin Vondrášek announced at a press conference. Over the past five years, the police have recorded over 8,100 cyberattacks on companies and institutions, with the total damage exceeding three billion crowns.
According to Mr. Vondrášek, the most frequent victims of cybercrime are non-banking companies and online stores, although schools and educational facilities also became a trend in 2024. "The most common types of attacks include hacking, i.e. attacking an information system or data, and misusing an electronic payment method," he added.
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04/02/2025
Thursday’s weather will be clear or almost clear. Highest temperatures will be from 14 to 18 °C.
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04/02/2025
Czechia, within the framework of the EU’s Ukraine Facility instrument, is investing 100 million euros (2.5 billion crowns) into the renovation of Ukrainian hospitals, as announced on Wednesday by Ukrainian Minister of Health Viktor Liashko. The minister attended a business forum in Kyiv with his Czech counterpart Vlastimil Válek.
"The Czech Republic is potentially ready to finance the modernisation of thirteen hospitals in seven regions of Ukraine,” Mr. Liashko wrote on Facebook. Medical facilities in the country have been also affected by the ongoing war and targeted by Russian forces. Last week, the Ukrainian army reported that Russia had hit a military hospital in Kharkiv.
The Czech Ministry of Health announced on Monday that Mr. Válek will be visiting Ukraine from Sunday to Thursday. His work programme includes visits to several hospitals that Czechia is helping to reconstruct with EU support, as well as meetings with Ukrainian officials.
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04/02/2025
Some of the Prague employees of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) will be staying home with salary compensation as of Wednesday, due to work disruption, RFE/RL informed ČTK in a press release. This is due to the fact that the station has still not received the funds allocated by the US Congress for April. President Donald Trump's administration wants to end funding for RFE/RL, and the radio station is now defending itself in court.
The US Congress has allocated approximately $77 million (1.8 billion crowns) to fund the station until the end of September this year. US lawmakers have not reversed their decision, so efforts to end RFE/RL's funding are based on Mr. Trump's executive orders. However, according to the radio station, it is Congress that decides such a step.
The United States Agency for Global Media, through which the radio station normally receives money, informed the station last Wednesday that it was reversing its previous decision to end funding, and the grant agreement for this fiscal year is now in effect. However, no money allocated by Congress has been received by the radio station since then, RFE/RL has stated.
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04/02/2025
Tennis player Jakub Menšík enjoyed returning to his hometown of Prostějov after his triumph at the Masters tournament in Miami, and told reporters at a press conference that by moving to twenty-fourth place in the ATP rankings, he has already fulfilled his pre-season goal. “As soon as everything calms down a bit and I return to the court, I will set new goals,” said Mr. Menšík.
The nineteen-year-old native of Prostějov, who became the first Czech to win a Masters tournament since Tomáš Berdych's success in Paris in 2005, watched a commemorative video at the beginning of the press conference that showed highlights from his 7:6, 7:6 win over Novak Djokovic. He has decided to withdraw from an upcoming tournament in Monte Carlo, which starts at the end of the week, and to take a few days’ rest instead.
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04/02/2025
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday unanimously rejected a proposal by opposition MPs, according to which current government regulation disadvantages collectively engaged farmers, such as cooperatives, when distributing state support. In their view, it benefits farmers who farm independently. The Constitutional Court will not intervene in the matter, and the setting of subsidies to farmers will remain unchanged.
The chairman of the Farmers' Defenders Association, Jaroslav Lád, said that the current rules are destroying the countryside and that farmers will look for other ways to defend their interests, for example in elections. Minister of Agriculture Marek Výborný welcomed the verdict. "The setting of subsidies is a political matter, not a constitutional one," court reporter Tomáš Langášek told journalists.
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