Trial begins against members of banned Workers’ Party

The Municipal Court of Brno has begun hearings against members of the recently banned Workers’ Party charged with disseminating neo-fascism and hate speech at a May Day rally. None of the six accused appeared in court, citing various reasons. The case is a retrial of an objected lawsuit in which the defendants were found guilty and faced up to five years imprisonment. Among them is the former chairman of the Workers’ Party and current leader of the Workers’ Party for Social Justice, who warned the demonstrators against immigrants as opposed to decent people. Experts on Thursday testified that those remarks and others constituted intolerance of national minorities.