Tomio Okamura

Commentary: What are the Romani candidates running for the fascists in the Czech Republic thinking?

28.9.2020 8:29  full story

YouTube restores Czech politician's channel but deletes two posts that spread hate

16.9.2020 7:19  full story

Czech bus driver refuses to drive city bus with bigoted campaign ad, mayor negotiates its removal

2.9.2020 11:53  full story

Facebook says it may disallow pages of far-right Czech party and its leaders

22.7.2020 7:11  full story

Czech Constitutional Court agrees with politician who sued over nickname ridiculing him in the press

30.3.2020 8:17  full story

Czech politician who relies on hatred ties himself in knots over the ultra-right terrorism in Germany

13.10.2019 16:59  full story

Czech right-wing extremist and 9/11 apologist cozies up to new movement run by son of former President

30.9.2019 8:07  full story

Czech ultrachauvinist shares satire online - without getting the joke

31.8.2019 9:28  full story

Commentary: Czech Interior Ministry is realizing ultra-nationalist politician is becoming a monster

28.8.2019 7:34  full story

Commentary: Czech President spouts reassuring nonsense to ultra-nationalists

18.7.2019 7:58  full story

Disgraced Austrian leader who backed Czech MP was a neo-Nazi for years, according to new evidence

10.6.2019 13:51  full story

Terezín Memorial no longer collaborating with controversial head of Czech Freedom Fighters' Union

6.2.2019 7:48  full story

Czech ultra-nationalist falsely attributes acid attack committed by native British man to "Muslim immigrants"

3.2.2019 19:06  full story

Czech terrorist gets four years, judge says he was influenced by the public dissemination of extremism

15.1.2019 15:57  full story

Czech Government approves extremism report, rhetoric of some MPs is more radical than neo-Nazis' now

27.12.2018 13:10  full story

Commentary: Actual risk now exists that deniers of the Holocaust of the Roma could join the Czech Government

14.11.2018 15:24  full story

Tomáš Ščuka: We may disagree with him, but Romani candidate for extremist party is entitled to his opinions

7.9.2018 7:09 On 5 and 6 October we will be voting in the local elections to the councils of cities and municipalities as well as to the Senate, the upper chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. I have been unable to avoid noticing the sharp reactions of some Romani people to the young Romani man who has decided to run as a candidate for the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" movement of Tomio Okamura (SPD) in Karviná.  full story

Czech tabloid will not be inviting ultra-right party representatives to its online debates

15.8.2018 6:42 The daily Blesk tabloid has decided not to invite any politicians from the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) party to its candidate debates prior to the autumn elections. After the 2017 elections, reporters from the publication were not given access to the party's events, so the move is one of retaliation.  full story

Czech Interior Minister says MP is lying about foreign nationals voting

17.7.2018 13:17 Czech MP Tomio Okamura (SPD), the vice-chair of the lower house and chair of the populist, xenophobic SPD party, announced on his official Facebook profile on Sunday that "Foreigners without Czech citizenship will newly be able to vote in the Czech Republic and run for office!" He also accused the new Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamáček of having instituted the measures immediately upon taking office.  full story

Czech ultraconservative alleges that members of minorities defend their rights at the expense of "heterosexual men who are white"

30.6.2018 12:16 Speaking in the lower house on 27 June, the chair of the xenophobic "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) party, Tomio Okamura, and the ultraconservative Václav Klaus, Jr (Civic Democratic Party - ODS) criticized the activity of the Czech Public Defender of Rights, Anna Šabatová. Okamura accused her of just defending the rights of minorities to the detriment of "white heterosexual men", and Klaus indirectly called her an extreme leftist.  full story