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08/22/2014
Lawyer Pavel Hasenkopf and the Office of the President have failed to reach an out-of-court settlement on a drawn-out dispute over the authorship of ex-president Václav Klaus’ controversial 2013 amnesty, the ctk news agency reports. Pavel Hasenkopf, who filed a law suit against the president’s office for claiming that he was one of the authors of the amnesty, has decided to push ahead with a court battle saying that the claim had badly damaged his reputation. The amnesty which Vaclav Klaus declared at the end of his second term in office saw the release of over 111,000 prisoners and halted the prosecution of a number of high-profile cases of large-scale corruption and financial fraud.
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08/22/2014
The governing coalition has reworked the draft of a new civil service law reflecting a recent compromise agreement reached with the opposition parties. The new proposal does not include the establishment of a public service directorate and an independent public service top official who would govern public administration and be immune from political interference. Under the new proposal, the civil service would fall under the interior ministry, and be overseen by a deputy minister in charge of public administration. The compromise agreement reached with the opposition caused a rift within the governing Social Democratic Party with the Minister for Human Rights Jiří Dienstbier saying the new arrangement would fail to depoliticize the civil service as planned. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has defended the compromise on the grounds that the country urgently needs a new civil service law. The new proposal will now be put to the opposition parties.
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08/22/2014
A court in Brno has sentenced the ring-leaders of a gang which forced Ukrainian women into prostitution to seven years in prison. The gang brought over a dozen girls to the Czech Republic, arranging their visas and promising them work as waitresses, before taking away their passports and forcing them into prostitution at a nightclub outside the city. The owner of the nightclub received a five year sentence.
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08/22/2014
A former nurse who worked at a hospital in Rumburk has been charged with murder on suspicion that she may have performed euthanasia on a number of patients. The nurse allegedly claimed she was fulfilling terminally ill patients’ wishes by giving them higher amounts of drugs in order to speed up their demise. Euthanasia is illegal under Czech law.
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08/21/2014
A charity run to raise money for the families of the five Czech soldiers killed in Afghanistan at the beginning of June will take place on Saturday in the town of Chrudim, the site of the military base where four of them trained. The 3-kilometre run, in which many of their fellow servicemen will take part, is to start from the Cloister Gardens on Ressel Square at 10 pm and will end outside the barracks of the 43rd Airborne Mechanised Battalion in Chrudim. It is the last of a series of charity events which raised 4.5 million crowns for the soldiers’ families.
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08/21/2014
Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek and Trade Minister Jan Mládek on Thursday met with the country’s business leaders to discuss the impact of the sanctions against Russia and consider alternative outlets for Czech export products. Minister Mládek said that while seen on a macroeconomic scale the potential losses were not significant firms entirely dependent on the Russian market could have serious problems. According to the minister Czech exporters might find new opportunities in Belorussia, Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan. The Czech foreign and trade ministries have been cooperating to help minimize the impact of the sanctions on the export-dependent Czech economy.
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08/21/2014
The city council of Ustí nad Labem has approved a land sale which will enable a Spanish automotive supplier to build a factory in the Triangle industrial zone near Žatec, in the north-west of the country. The construction of the plant is expected to begin next spring and the initial investment has been put at 247 million crowns. The plant should provide jobs for around 125 people.
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08/21/2014
Police are investigating the death of a patient in Rumburk hospital, the ctk news agency reports. The patient died under suspicious circumstances at the beginning of June and the hospital subsequently filed a criminal complaint against one of its nurses. The police are now looking into the deaths of other patients who were in her care. The hospital management is to reveal more information on the case at a press briefing scheduled for Friday.
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08/21/2014
Deputy Ombudsman Stanislav Křeček has criticized the state for failing to adequately protect the country’s cultural heritage. In connection with a highly-publicized case of a protected building in Ostrava which was allowed to go to ruin without anyone being held responsible, Křeček has urged a tightening of the law which would hold the state responsible for the repair and maintenance of cultural monuments which their owners cannot afford to undertake, and seek financial compensation at a later stage. According to official statistics over 700 of the country’s 40 thousand cultural monuments are in urgent need of repair.
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08/21/2014
Evžen Sedlář, the central figure in a drug abuse case which resulted in the death of an 18-year-old-boy in March of this year, has admitted responsibility for his death. Sedlář gave the victim and another friend of his drugs, transdermal painkillers and alcohol to experiment with at a party. Sedlář, who admitted his guilt in court on Thursday, could face up to 18 years in prison. The incident, which ended in tragedy, was recorded on a mobile phone by one of the participants.
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