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Czech MP Tomio Okamura in the Chamber of Deputies, 10 May 2022 (PHOTO: www.psp.cz)
Czech far-right MP gives distasteful xenophobic speech in lower house, attacks Romani refugees with the Nazi term "inadaptables" - ministers left to shut down the session
11.5.2022 14:04 full story
Czech elections won by the Spolu (Together) coalition, who could form a majority with the Pirates-STAN coalition, communists out after 100 years in the national legislature
10.10.2021 8:30 full story
Six Romani men and women are running in Czech elections to the lower house, one for ANO and Levice, two for the Greens, two for ultranationalist party
30.9.2021 14:12 full story
Czech MPs abolish infant institutions and raise remuneration for foster parents, bill now heads to Senate
12.8.2021 5:33 full story
Some volunteer civil society members of Czech Govt Roma Council protest new law on subjecting welfare benefits to collections
14.7.2021 8:42 full story
Czech MP alleges during parliamentary debate on welfare bill that incest is part of Romani culture, open racism on the floor of the lower house
11.7.2021 6:01 full story
Czech lower house passes bill to compensate the illegally sterilized, most but not all of whom were Romani women
4.6.2021 16:18 full story
Czech lower house committee chooses attorney now facing disciplinary action for making light of racist crime to join public broadcasting board
19.5.2021 6:59 full story
Czech lower house supports first reading of bill to criminalize deletion of vulgar posts from social media
7.5.2021 7:35 full story
Czech lower house adopts changes to law on collections, but not all proposals succeeded
22.4.2021 7:06 full story
Czech lower house has approved moratorium on collections agents confiscating property in people's homes due to COVID-19
1.4.2021 6:13 full story
Elena Gorolová, spokeswoman for the illegally sterilized, calls on Czech MPs to support first reading of bill to compensate them
9.2.2021 7:23 full story
Commentary: Czech Social Democrats sink to the level of ultra-nationalists with proposal to cut funding to NGOs working with minorities
7.12.2020 8:54 full story
Czech Finance Minister supports bill to compensate illegally sterilized women
22.10.2020 10:48 full story
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights calls on Czech lower house to adopt law to compensate illegally sterilized people, first reading scheduled for today
30.9.2020 8:05 full story
Czech MP who compared Muslim immigrants to "invasive species" will not be stripped of immunity from prosecution
3.6.2020 7:34 full story
Czech ultra-nationalist MP could evade prosecution for calling immigrant Muslims an "invasive species"
23.4.2020 10:43 full story
Czech lower house committee suspends discussion of stripping ultranationalist MP of immunity from prosecution for xenophobic remarks
15.3.2020 10:02 full story