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This is what it looks like when calls to burn people alive on buses are put into practice. A street gang attacked a bus in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis with Molotov cocktails on 28 July 2016. (PHOTO: YouTube.com)
Czech Prosecutor General insists online hate speech is a felony, Supreme Court agrees
23.8.2019 8:21 full story
Czech gunman convicted of shooting Romani man moved from prison to temporary custody pending appeal
15.5.2019 7:10 full story
Czech court conditionally suspends prosecution of man who threatened to kill Romani celebrity
15.2.2019 9:55 full story
Czech court hears testimony from former secretary to ultranationalist party about his bigoted outburst
30.1.2019 18:26 full story
Italian Senator who compared his colleague to an "orangutan" has been convicted
18.1.2019 15:54 full story
Czech eyewitnesses to assault on African man say they fear for their lives if they testify
14.1.2019 9:32 full story
Czech court releases recording of phone call in terrorism case capturing defendant's hate speech
10.1.2019 8:58 full story
Czech prosecutor seeks just four years in prison for fanatic who caused train crashes
9.1.2019 17:42 full story
A quarter of a century ago, 18 racists hounded a Romani man to death; the Czech courts convicted just three
25.9.2018 19:14 Tibor Danihel, a Romani resident of the Czech town of Písek, was just 17 years old when, on 24 September 1993, a group of neo-Nazis chased him into the Otava river, where he drowned. The subsequent trial of the culprits was a complicated journey from first-instance acquittals for almost all the defendants to an eventual ruling, for three perpetrators, of prison sentences without the possibility of parole. full story
Czech Constitutional Court rejects complaint from neo-Nazi convicted of 2012 arson
9.8.2018 6:10 Czech Television reported on 7 August that the Czech Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint from neo-Nazi Tomáš Kopecký, who in 2012 committed arson against a residential hotel in the town of Aš where the tenants were Romani. At the time of his attack there were 18 people, eight of whom were children, in the building. full story
German court sentences neo-Nazi to life in prison
11.7.2018 17:43 Beate Zschäpe, the main defendant in the trial of members of the National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi group, will spend the rest of her life in a German prison according to a sentence handed down against her today by the High Court in the state of Munich, who found her guilty of 10 murders. Deutsche-Presse Agentur reported that her co-defendant Ralf Wohlleben, who supplied the group with weapons, was given a 10-year sentence. full storyHungary: Traffickers in human beings sentenced to 25 years for 71 deaths, prosecutor wants life sentences
18.6.2018 8:53 A court in Kecskemét, Hungary has sentenced the four main defendants in the trial of the death by suffocation of 71 migrants in a refrigerator truck three years ago to 25 years in prison. The prosecution sought life sentences for them.full story
VIDEO: First-instance verdict in the Chomutov shooting case - 12.5 years
19.4.2018 9:02 The Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem has sentenced 37-year-old Petr Benda to 12.5 years in prison for shooting dead a Romani man behind the wheel of a van last spring at a housing estate in Chomutov. Benda faced as many as 20 years in prison for firing 13 bullets at the van driven by Radek Š. full story
BREAKING NEWS: Czech shooter of Romani man gets 12.5 years in prison
17.4.2018 10:20 The Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem has sentenced 37-year-old Petr Benda to 12.5 years in prison for shooting a Romani man dead behind the wheel of a van in Chomutov last spring. The court ruled that the van posed no danger to anybody at the time of the shooting. full story
Germany: 14 month sentence for Holocaust denial just the latest conviction of 89-year-old
30.11.2017 8:53 On 29 November an appeals court in Detmold in the German state of North Rnine-Westphalia sentenced Ursula Haverbeck to 14 months in prison for denying the existence of the Holocaust. The 89-year-old woman was found guilty of inciting hatred. full story
Czech court will soon try yet another person who sent death threats to Romani singer
8.11.2017 8:52 News server Lidovky.cz reports that the death threats made against Romani singer Radoslav Banga because of his stance against the neo-Nazi Ortel band will be heard in court soon - Aleš Rozsíval of Prostějov will be tried for verbally assaulting the performer through social networking sites and the state prosecutor has charged him with four separate felonies. Rozsíval previously made threats in a similar manner against Czech MP Jana Černochová (Civic Democratic Party - ODS). full story
Wales: Young Traveller Accused of 1976 Murder May Get His Name Cleared
12.7.2017 10:55 British media are reporting that 40 years after Noel Jones, a man of Gypsy and Traveller heritage, was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old girl in 1976, the case has been reopened because DNA tests link another suspect to the murder. Jones was an illiterate 18-year-old when he was picked up by police and allegedly coerced into confessing to the rape and murder of Janet Commins.full story
Czech Republic: Romani people who responded to racist innuendo by giving the Nazi salute face up to three years in prison
11.5.2017 8:27 The daily Domažlický Deník reports that the Czech Prosecutor's Office has filed charges with the District Court in Klatovy against two Romani men from Kašperské Hory, Lukáš Červeňák (26) and Martin Škvár (32), for giving the Nazi salute in a restaurant in Kašperské Hory on 29 December 2016. Both men, however, claim that they did so in response to racist sentiments expressed toward them by one of the restaurant's customers. full story
Germany: Trial begins of right-wing extremists who used Czech fireworks to make bombs
9.3.2017 14:56 On 7 March the trial began in Dresden under extraordinary security measures of eight right-wing extremists charged with carrying out a series of bomb attacks against their political opponents and refugees. The seven men and one woman, who also procured the material for their explosives in the Czech Republic, face many years in prison if convicted.full story
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