Ministry of the Interior publishes manual for dealing with extremism

The Ministry of the Interior has published a manual for communities on how to deal with extremism. The manual is intended for city officials and provides advice on preventing radical demonstrations, references to legal verdicts on extremist rallies, and a list 38 anniversaries celebrated by neo-Nazi organisations. Far-right extremist groups have frequently avoided the country’s stringent anti-fascism laws by marching under false pretexts, for example by picketing in support of the death penalty on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Extremist organisations in the Czech Republic – particularly neo-Nazis – have increased their public activity in recent months, and the government and police have been under pressure to respond. A number of people have been arrested and detained in recent months under laws forbidding the “endorsement or promotion of movements to suppress human rights and freedoms”.