President’s Office rejects criticism of President Zeman by UN Human Rights Commissioner

The Office of the President has rejected criticism of President Miloš Zeman by UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Al Hussein. Addressing a conference in The Hague on Monday the commissioner spoke out against what he called the ‘bonding of demagogues” worldwide. He called for the world to reject populists such as Geert Wilders, Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Madame Le Pen and Miloš Zeman saying that what they had in common, they also had in common with Daesh - creating the illusion of a pure world inhabited by people of one ethnicity or religion. Europe’s past, as we all know, was for centuries anything but that, the commissioner said. President Zeman’s spokesman responded to the attack by saying that the Czech president would continue to defend the Czech Republic against the threat of terrorism which is linked to the migrant crisis.