Roma rights activist and Hungary’s former MEP Viktoria Mohacsi has left the country to settle in Canada, daily Nepszabadsag reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources close to the politician.
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Yesterday evening's edition of the Czech Television Program "Máte slovo" ("You Have the Floor") discussed sentencing for petty crimes. Those participating in the debate included Czech Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil and the chair of the Romani Association of Moravia, (Společenství Romů na Moravě), Karel Holomek. There was general agreement among the debaters about the usefulness of establishing a Central Misdemeanor Registry.
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On Saturday 18 February 2012, Czech neo-Nazis under the heading of an official gathering of the Workers' Youth (Dělnická mládež - DM) will march through the town of Jihlava. The local Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) group in Jihlava is planning a blockade on that day starting at 14:00.
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Last week two men with shaved heads attacked a fellow passenger on a tram in Prague's 8th district. The victim was seated and asleep. Both of the assailants, wearing hoods, beat him up. They then got off the tram and fled into the metro. The driver of the tram says the attack was racially motivated
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Remarks made recently by Czech Foreign Minister and TOP 09 chair Karel Schwarzenberg have caused an uproar. Yesterday Schwarzenberg told Czech PM Petr Nečas that refusing to sign the European Union's pact on fiscal responsibility would damage the Czech Republic's interests, and alleged the PM was "causing tension to show what a big champion he is." The main opponent of the pact and of greater EU integration in general, Czech President Václav Klaus, took exception to the Foreign Minister's remarks, saying he should not have chosen such harsh language. To make matters worse, while Nečas was attending complicated negotiations in Brussels, Schwarzenberg made a statement on the "Fakta Barbory Tachecí" program which Klaus believes has harmed the country's reputation.
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Anna Ghannamová will no longer be working as a moderator of the Klub 3 program on Slovak television's TA3 channel. TA3 director Michal Gučík made the decision after complaints were made against the moderator by two political party chairs who were guests of the program, Anna Belousovová (Nation and Justice - Národ a spravedlnost) and Nora Mojsejová (Free Speech - Svobodné slovo).
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A gathering held in the Czech Senate today on the occasion of Holocaust Victims' Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day warned against being passive with respect to new forms of anti-Semitism and of the need to counteract wrongdoing. "The millions of victims of the monstrous Nazi regime could have a long series of successors at any time, because anti-Semitism, fanaticism and hatred have not yet disappeared from the world history of the incorrigible human race," said the Vice-Chair of the Czech Senate, Přemysl Sobotka (Civic Democrats - ODS).
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Reports have been spreading on Facebook that someone claiming involvement with Anonymous has launched the recent distributed denial-of-service attacks on news server Romea.cz. News server Indymedia Česká republika reports that Anonymous Czech Republic has distanced itself from the attack.
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On the morning of 11 January, a police intervention against Romani people took place in the Ukrainian town of Uzhhorod. The special police commando unit of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, "Berkut", broke into Romani dwellings in two localities, Radvanka and Telman, as well as other sites throughout Uzhhorod.
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A court in Most has rejected a complaint filed by attorney Petr Kočí alleging bias in the work of expert witness Michal Mazel because his supposed Jewish origin meant he could not objectively evaluate the case of Lucie Šlégrová, a member of the ultra-right extremist Workers' Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti - DSSS). The chair of the court's criminal division, Bohumila Hu�áčková, has told the Czech Press Agency that the objection is simply irrelevant.
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Czech attorney Klára Samková will be representing the five defendants accused of committing an attack in a gaming room in Nový Bor last year. Samková has told news server Romea.cz that many aspects of the case which were reported by the media as open-and-shut either did not happen at all or were dubiously interpreted by the media. News server Romea.cz is publishing Ms Samková's statement on the case in full below:
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Police in Brno are investigating a racially motivated attack by a group of ethnic Czechs on a single Cuban man. TV Nova has reported that the attack was clearly racially motivated. Witnesses have confirmed that the neo-Nazi assailants shouted racist abuse during the brawl.
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Romani residents of the Czech town of Rotava are expressing their dissatisfaction with the fact that the Workers' Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti - DSSS) will be holding an event there. News server iDNES.cz reports that the town hall has rented out its "Slovanský dům" cultural center to the party for an event on 28 January. Local Romani residents consider the meeting planned in Rotava by party chair Vandas to be a provocation.
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One of the people recently identified as a victim of the capsized vessel Concordia is 38-year-old violinist Sandor Feher. The Hungarian Foreign Ministry has confirmed he was a Hungarian citizen.
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Czech MP Otto Chaloupka (Public Affairs - VV) has made blunt statements about Romani people in a recent interview. He uses many arguments that we constantly hear repeated in the media, arguments that are purely demagogic and not based in truth. That is why they must be sharply opposed.
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