Protests planned over controversial court rulings

Czech scientists as well as foreign researchers say they will organise protests to be held outside Indian embassies to criticise a controversial court ruling in India this week. On Wednesday a court sentenced two Czech researchers caught for illegally collecting some 200 specimens of rare beetles and butterfly larvae in the country. One received a fine, the other a fine and three year jail sentence for the same crime. Both men have maintained their innocence throughout.The Czech Entomological Society’s Vladislav Malý told journalists on Thursday that the planned protests would be held next week at embassies in Prague, Vienna and Ottawa.