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08/01/2008
The Green Party leadership on Thursday approved new draft rules of the party. Members of the Greens will have one month to discuss and modify the draft. The proposals will be discussed at the national congress of the party due to take place at the beginning of September. The party rules were proposed by a team around party leader Martin Bursík and they met with criticism from deputy chairwoman Dana Kuchtová, who wants to run for the post of party leader. Mrs Kuchtová argues that they concentrate power in the hands of the leadership at the expense of the national council and regional organisations.
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08/01/2008
Court in west Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary have blocked the town’s immovable property worth six to eight billion crowns (over 500 million US dollars) due to an unpaid debt. The property was frozen after the culture department of the Town Hall had failed to pay a fee worth 130,000 crowns connected with court disputes over the reconstruction of the local theatre. Deputy Mayor Tomáš Hybner the town had already repaid the debt and that he expects the property to be unblocked within a week.
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08/01/2008
Several hundred far right supporters are expected to attend a neo-Nazi concert which is to be held in Ochoz near Brno on Saturday. The event is officially announced as a rock and metal concert but specialists in extremism say the bands openly support racism and neo-Nazism. About 100 policemen will monitor the event.
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08/01/2008
Most foreign gangs operating in the Czech Republic are involved in money laundering, drug dealing and illegal arms sales, the anti-organised crime united reported on Thursday. To a lesser extent, they are also involved in trading stolen cars, fraud and illegal immigration. According to experts from the anti-organised crime unit, violence in gangs is gradually decreasing and their interest is increasingly shifting to economic crime.
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08/01/2008
Two ferry links across the Vltava River were launched in Prague on Friday. One ferry will run between the National Theatre, Žofín Island and the district of Smíchov. The second ferry service will connect Prague’s Podolí and a park known as Císařská Louka on the other side of the river. The ferry is an extension of the capital’s integrated transport system, which means passengers can use CZK20 tram or metro ticket. The Czech capital is already operating several ferry links.
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08/01/2008
A new building on the Czech Republic’s highest peak Sněžka has opened to the public, replacing a building called Česká bouda which stood there from 1868. The controversial box-shaped building with wooden slates that can open up in summer and shutter up in winter was designed by architects Martin Rajniš and Patrik Hoffmann. It houses a post-office, restaurant and a look-out terrace.
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07/31/2008
Former Czech president Václav Havel has called for the International Olympic Committee to rethink its stance on athletes’ freedom of expression ahead of the Olympic Games in China, which start next week. The International Olympic Committee has urged athletes not to highlight human rights abuses in China while at the games, saying that such behaviour would constitute the spreading of political propaganda, which is banned by the Olympic Charter. On Thursday Václav Havel joined Archbishop Desmond Tutu in calling for the IOC to change its position. According to the public appeal of which Mr Havel is a signatory, ‘to speak of human rights is not politics; only authoritarian… regimes try to make it so’.
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07/31/2008
A United Nations report has suggested that the Czech Republic is amongst the countries best placed to provide its peacekeepers in Sudan with new aircraft. The UN is urging India, Ukraine and the Czech Republic in particular to donate helicopters to its peacekeeping efforts in Darfur. The report says that while up to 300,000 people have died in the region during five years of war, no military transport or tactical helicopter has been deployed to patrol an area the size of France. The report suggests that countries such as the Czech Republic have helicopters ‘gathering dust in hangars’ which they could contribute to the UN’s efforts.
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07/31/2008
The Czech police will hand over suspected pedophile Patrick Burnell to their British counterparts on Tuesday, it was announced on Thursday. The handover will take place at Prague’s Ruzyně airport, a police spokesperson said. Earlier this week, a Czech court decided that Mr Burnell should be extradited for criminal prosecution in Britain, where he is charged with sexually abusing 16 children. Mr Burnell is believed to have contacted his victims, mainly girls aged 12 and 13, via the internet, promising them a car ride during which he allegedly committed the crimes. He was arrested two weeks ago in cooperation with Interpol on the basis of a European arrest warrant.
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07/31/2008
The former head of an Eastern Bohemian hospital, Josef Pejchl, has been sentenced to ten months in prison, after failing to alert the authorities to a spate of killings carried out at his infirmary by a member of staff. In February, male nurse Petr Zelenka was found guilty of murdering seven patients at the hospital in Havlíčkův Brod, and attempting to kill ten more, with lethal injections of the drug heparin. On Thursday, the hospital’s former director was also sentenced. Mr Pejchl is appealing the verdict. He says he did report irregularities at the hospital as early as October 2006, but that the authorities failed to act. The police arrested Mr Zelenka two months later.
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