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02/12/2008
The government has approved a new amendment to the Criminal Code, which is supposed to protect the privacy of victims of crime. Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil said that under the new law it wouldn’t be possible to publish names and photos of juvenile victims without their parents’ approval. The ban on publishing private information will include adult victims of crime as well.
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02/12/2008
Czech police officers are to help Czech tourists in Croatia during the summer season, the Czech and Croatian Prime Ministers Mirek Topolánek and Ivo Sanaders announced after their meeting on Tuesday. Mr Topolánek said the Czech-Croatian negotiations were accelerated by the case of two Czech female tourists, who were reportedly beaten up by Croatian police in September. The Czech police officers are to assist their Croatian colleagues in cases involving Czech tourists. Croatia is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Czechs. About one million Czech tourists visited the country in 2006.
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02/12/2008
The number of Czechs over 65 is expected to increase by one million by 2050, according to the calculations of the Czech Statistical Office. There are currently about 1.5 million people over 65 living in the Czech Republic, which has a population of 10 million. Their share is expected to make up almost one quarter of the population by 2030 and one third by 2050.
The Czech cabinet on Monday approved a pension reform bill that would gradually increase the retirement age to 65 years. At present males usually retire at the age of 61, childless females at the age of 60 and mothers earlier, according to the number of children. The reform bill also wants to extend the obligatory social insurance period to 35 years. Under the new bill, mothers of two or more children would still have a chance to retire earlier.
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02/12/2008
The police have accused Barbora Škrlová, a Czech woman of 33 who attempted to pass herself off as a teenage girl and later a teenage boy, of abusing the 7-year-old son of her acquaintance Klára Mauerová. Ms Škrlová lived with Mauerová's family as the boy's stepsister for several weeks. Last May, Mrs Mauerová was charged with abusing her son, keeping him bound and naked in a closet. Brabora Škrlová was believed to be a victim of abuse herself but she is now accused of having been involved in the maltreatment.
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02/12/2008
The government on Monday earmarked some 21 million euros as the country’s contribution towards the construction of NATO’s new headquarters in Brussels. The sum will be paid over the next six years. The total cost is expected to come up to 1.15 billion euros.
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02/11/2008
The High Court in Prague has halted the prosecution of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former prosecutor who took part in the 1950s communist show trial of Milada Horáková. Ms Brožová, now aged 86, was sentenced last year to eight years in prison for judicial murder, but she appealed against the verdict. The court ruled on Monday that the offence was barred under the statute if limitations. Milada Horáková, a lawyer and politician, is the only woman to have been executed during Czechoslovakia's 1950s show trials.
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02/11/2008
The first part of a 200-strong Czech reconstruction team left for the Afghan province of Logar on Monday. According to Deputy Defence Minister Martin Barták the team will help re-build the province’s war-torn infrastructure and assist ordinary citizens. It will operate in Afghanistan for a period of three years and will include civilian experts in agriculture, construction and water management.
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02/11/2008
The Czech foreign police have detained two US citizens who have been in the country for more than three months without securing a visa. The two Americans have been taken to a holding centre in Poštorná and are to be deported from the country. The two men have reportedly applied for asylum.
Until the Czech Republic’s entry to the Schengen zone, Americans could live in the country without a visa, leaving every 90 days to get a stamp in their passport. As of the end of last December, visa-less US citizens are only allowed to remain in the country or any other part of the Schengen area for a maximum of 3 out of six months.
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02/11/2008
Social Democratic MP Evžen Snítilý, who collapsed during the presidential election on Saturday, has been released from Prague’s Střešovice hospital. His condition is reported to be much improved. His collapse sparked a highly publicized conflict between the ruling Civic Democrats and the opposition Social Democrats. Several Social Democrat deputies accused Interior Minister Ivan Langer and another MP from the Civic Democrats of pressuring Mr Snítilý to support Václav Klaus in the third round of presidential elections.
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02/11/2008
Meanwhile, Christian Democrat senator Josef Kalbáč, who was also hospitalised during Saturday’s presidential election, claims he got into a skirmish with an unknown lobbyist who attempted to influence him ahead of the third vote. Senator Kalbáč said the incident upset him so badly he had to seek medical assistance. Karel Barták, another senator who absented himself from all three rounds of the presidential election, refuted claims that he had felt unwell, explaining that he refused to take part in a public vote on principle.
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