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02/13/2008
Three Czech men were sentenced on Wednesday for attempting to sell a child to a British couple. The child involved was the nine-month-old daughter of one of the convicted. The three men were caught in a sting, when the couple they tried to sell the child to turned out to be a pair of British investigative journalists, reporting on the sales of children abroad. Petr Zemianek who organized the deal was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Dušan Čonka, whose task was to find a fake birth certificate for the child, was handed a three and a half year suspended sentence. Vladimir Ščasný, who lent Mr Čonka a birth certificate and photos of his daughter Karolína, was dealt a two year suspended sentence.
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02/13/2008
The Czech koruna hit a new high point of 25.48 koruna to the euro early on Wednesday, fuelled by an easing of worries about the risk of holding Central European currencies. But analysts predict that the Czech currency is likely to drift lower in the next couple of weeks and there are mixed views on whether another interest rate rise can be expected after last week’s quarter point increase to 3.75 percent.
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02/13/2008
Czech women’s tennis number one Nicole Vaidišová has announced that she no longer wants to play in the country’s Fed Cup team. She made the statement to the Czech newspaper Sport on Wednesday, adding that for now, she wanted to concentrate on her own career. Vaidišová, who ranks sixteenth in the world, said that she was proud to have played for her country in the past, but right now she had to put all of her energy into her standing on the women’s singles circuit. She added it had been a very hard decision for her to make. The captain of the Fed Cup’s national team Petr Pála said that he was saddened by the news, and that the team now found itself in a much weaker position. The Czech team’s next match in the Fed Cup is a play-off against Israel in April.
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02/12/2008
The Communist Party announced on Tuesday it would support a public vote in the second presidential election due to be held on Friday, February 15. The Communists have also decided not to vote for incumbent president Václav Klaus, nominated by the Civic Democrats, and support one of the five candidates whose names they announced on Sunday. The presidential candidates proposed by the Communists include ombudsman Otakar Motejl, former dissident and foreign minister Jiří Dienstbier, the chairman of the Constitutional Court Pavel Rychteský, MEP Jana Bobošíková and the head of the Czech Academy of Sciences Václav Pačes.
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02/12/2008
All 41 senators of the ruling Civic Democratic Party have nominated Václav Klaus, the incumbent President and the party’s honorary chairman, for the second presidential election, which is due to be held on Friday. His challenger Jan Švejnar has received 11 nominations by four groups of senators, including the opposition Social Democrats. Unlike Mr Švejnar, Václav Klaus will also be nominated by Civic Democrats in the lower house.
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02/12/2008
Five senators and deputies who voted for incumbent President Václav Klaus in last week’s presidential election received bullets in the post on Tuesday. The bullets were uncovered in two envelopes during a routine X-ray check of the post. An unknown perpetrator is also said to have threatened Mrs Juřenčáková by sending her a vulgar SMS on Friday night before the third round of the presidential election.
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02/12/2008
One of the deputies who received a bullet in the post is Evžen Snítilý of the Social Democrats. Deputy Snítilý, who collapsed during the presidential election on Saturday after reportedly being pressurized to vote for Mr. Klaus, said on Tuesday he was considering leaving the Social Democratic Party and resigning on his mandate as a deputy. He said he hadn’t yet made up his mind who to support in Friday’s second presidential election.
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02/12/2008
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said he was unwilling to accept the Communists’ terms of support for Jan Švejnar in Friday’s presidential election. The Communists said on Monday they were ready to vote for Jan Švejnar if the Social Democrats and the Greens promised not to support the US missile defence system in the Czech Republic. Mr Schwarzenberg said that if the Social Democrats and the Greens acceded to this condition, Mr Švejnar’s candidature would immediately lose sense.
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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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