Czech Republic

[Alex Linder]

The Czech Republic's freedom of speech and assembly laws have been tested to the full in recent months by a small but determined group of neo-Nazis. For the second time this year, the city of Plzeò in West Bohemia is bracing itself for a march by far-right radicals, and politicians are wondering whether it might not be time to prune the country's legislation to prevent such marches from going ahead.

Pavel Rödl is a man with a problem. He's the mayor of Plzeò, the regional capital of West Bohemia, home to the famous Pilsner Urquell brewery and also the second largest synagogue in Europe. On January 19th, 66 years after the first transport of Plzeò Jews to the concentration camps, a group of neo-Nazis wanted to march past the synagogue. There was an outcry, and Mayor Rödl banned the march. 1,000 police officers were deployed and people were advised to stay home. In the end a dozen or so skinheads turned up and nothing happened.

The group filed a complaint. On Friday, a court ruled the march should have gone ahead. The mayor had effectively broken the law guaranteeing free assembly. The group says it will hold another rally, on March 1st. Once again they want to march past the synagogue. Once again, Pavel Rödl has to weigh up whether to break the law.

The dilemma has sparked a debate among politicians as to whether Czech legislation should be changed to deny neo-Nazis the freedom of assembly. Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek had this to say to Czech television:

"If it's possible to hold neo-Nazi marches in this way and if the law allows them and if the law even criminalises those who have the courage to try and ban them…then clearly we have to examine the way the law is written."

But comments like that are anathema even to some in Mr Topolánek's own party, the Civic Democrats. Czechs paid dearly for the freedom of speech and assembly, for so long denied them by the communists. Marek Benda is a Civic Democrat MP and son of the late dissident Václav Benda:

"I'm just really afraid that an amendment to the law would be abused – in other words that we'd end up banning more things than we should."

So it seems unlikely the law will be changed. Indeed some politicians argue the present legislation is more than adequate, if applied correctly. For now, all eyes are on Pavel Rödl and whether he'll wield his power to ban another neo-Nazi meeting on March 1st.

[Alex Linder]

Neo-Nazis likely to march through Czech Plzen on March 1

Plzen- A neo-Nazi march will be held on March 1 instead of a banned march scheduled for January 19, the march's organiser Vaclav Bures said.

The original march date, January 19, coincided with the 65th anniversary of the first deportation of Jews from Plzen to the concentration camps.

Plzen Mayor Pavel Roedl (senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS) finally banned the march. However, the regional administrative court decided last Friday that the march was banned unjustly because the criteria for the ban were not met. As a result, Bures could organise a new rally.

Bures has to announce the new march to the authorities one day in advance at the latest.

The route of the march is the same as planned before. The marchers are to pass by Plzen's Great Synagogue.

Bures said he did not know how many people could take part in the event.

Later in January it turned out that Bures was a member of the ODS branch in Plzen-Lochotin. The branch immediately expelled him from the party.

Bures announced the January 19 march as a march in support of the freedom of speech, in reaction to the police intervention that prevented a neo-Nazi march through the historical Jewish Quarter in Prague.

[Alex Linder]

German Police: we won't let German neo-nazis to Czech Republic

Jan 17, 2008 03:05 PM Filed under News

The ‘Protest march for freedom of speech’ as the right-wing radicals call their demonstration, is planned on this Saturday 19th January, takes place in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

illustration photo 19th January is the 65th anniversary of the first transport of Jews from Pilsen to concentration camps. Nearly 3000 Pilsen Jews perished in Nazi camps during the World War II.

The German police announced they are going to all the steps necessary to keep the German neo-nazis from travelling to the Saturday march. As the Czech Republic have entered the Schengen space, 700 former Bavarian border police comes back to operate in the border region.

This comes as a consequence Czech radicals put an invitation on an Internet forum, inviting ‘all the German friends’ to the Czech Republic demonstration.

http://www.abcprague.com/2008/01/17/...czech-republic

[Serbian]

Demonstrations in Prague for Serbian Kosovo which the ZOG puppet government tried to ban.

[Alex Linder]

One thousand policemen to monitor neo-Nazi march in Plzen

Plzen- About 1000 policemen will guard the streets of Plzen during a neo-Nazi march through the city centre on Saturday, March 1, police spokeswoman Jana Vaclavova said.

She said riot police, traffic police, detectives and investigators, mounted police and dog-handlers will be on alert since there is a real danger of a conflict arising between the neo-Nazis and their opponents.

Members of anti-conflict teams will also be available.

The police will have water cannons, armoured carriers and a helicopter at their disposal, Vaclavova said adding that the Bavarian and Saxon police forces have also been asked to send their specialists.

The march will be held from 14:00 to 19:00 on Saturday.

"Since opponents of the march plan to hold unauthorised actions outside the Grand Synagogue and at other places approximately at the time of the march, there is a real danger of a conflict between the groups," Vaclavova said.

She said the police have recommended to people to avoid the streets along which the neo-Nazis plan to march.

The regional court in Plzen has authorised the march called Protest against limitation of freedom of assembly and limitation of freedom of expression to be held on a substitute date after it upheld the complaint by Vaclav Bures against a ban imposed on the planned march in January.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=299117

[Alex Linder]

Skinheads demolish Chinese cafeteria in Prague

Prague, 25.2.2008, 12:12, (ROMEA/CTK)

A group of Czech skinheads broke the shop window of a Chinese cafeteria in Prague-Nusle shortly before midnight on Friday and threw two stones inside, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.

Analyst Miroslav Mares said he considered the attack extraordinary.

"It violates the image the extremists try to create by decent and well-organised marches," Mares told the paper.

He said neo-Nazis otherwise mostly attacked groups of their peers who disagreed with their activities.

The cafeteria was already closed on Friday night, but three of its employees were sitting inside and chatting, one of them, Chen Wei Qi, said.

Chen recalled that she saw a group of young people in the square outside the shop and one of they had a beer pint glass. Shortly afterwards, the pint glass broke the window. Chen and the two male cooks who got lightly injured hid in the back of the cafeteria, the paper writes.

The skinheads threw stones in the small restaurant and walked away. The police whom Chen immediately called spotted the skinhead group several blocks away from the cafeteria. The youths had knives, brass knuckles and two pistols on them, the paper writes.

"However, nobody was arrested. The police have not succeeded in identifying the perpetrator," the paper quotes police spokesman Tomas Hulan as saying.

MfD notes that police are often helpless in similar situations because they cannot identify the individual perpetrator within a group.

Ondrej Cakl, who specialises in extremism, said he recognised boys who regularly attended neo-Nazi events in the group that attacked the cafeteria.

The Nova television reported on the attack and the subsequent police intervention.

Such an attack has been unusual in the Czech Republic. Czech neo-Nazis had frequently attacked foreigners in the early 1990s, mostly Vietnamese vendors.

http://www.romea.cz/english/index.ph...etail=2007_758

[Serbian]

Jewess and war criminal Madeleine Albright confronted at her book signing in the Czech Republic and asked to also sign some posters with pictures of her 'work' in Serbia.


Yesterday in Prague canceled book promotion Madeleine Albright "Prague Winter".

She was signing her book when a group of 'friends' from the Association of Serbs in Kosovo with placards asked her to sign them as well, because the images on the placards were also her work. After the incident with the security, Albright left the room and went to the signing only after 15 minutes had passed.





One of the posters that was supposed to be signed by jew war criminal Albright, there was a total of 5 different themes.
Soon to be released report in Serbian and video

[Dawn Cannon]

Originally Posted by Serbian

She was signing her book when a group of 'friends' from the Association of Serbs in Kosovo with placards asked her to sign them as well, because the images on the placards were also her work.

Poetic justice.

[John Mallory]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...2336--nhl.html

[Serbian]

This is more PR than anything else as nothing will come of it, we are not god's chosen, but it is still good to see.


November 14, 2012 | 21:46

Ex-U.S. sectary of state sued for anti-Serb insults

Source: Tanjug

PRAGUE -- A Czech pro-Serb group has filed criminal charges against former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her offensive statement against Serbs.



"We charge that she had committed the criminal act of insulting peoples, racial, ethnic or other groups," the Friends of Serbs in Kosovo organization said in a statement on Wednesday.

The prosecution in Prague confirmed for the AFP news agency that the complaint had been filed, but did not wish to offer any further comment.

Albright caused a storm of criticism recently when she referred to a group of Czech activists as "disgusting Serbs".

The activists had arrived at Albright's book signing event in Prague, but instead of a copy of "Prague Winter" - they asked the former top U.S. official to sign posters containing images of Serb victims of NATO's 1999 war.

The video of her telling them to leave in a raised tone of voice, and calling them "disgusting Serbs", was posted on YouTube and has since generated over 340,000 views.

The French news agency described Albright as being "unpopular among Serbs" for her role in the war the western military alliance waged against the country, and also for being "one of the key promoters" of the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo in 2008.

The website of the Friends of Serbs in Kosovo states that the organization strives to forge stronger ties between Czechs and Serbs.

[Serbian]

More demos by Czech comrades in support of Serbia

Prague, 15.03.2008

[john smith]

We have published interview with Pavel Toulaev, the editor-in-chief of the Russian international magazine "ATHENAEUM". We think that this interview could be interesting for you. Here is the link:

http://deliandiver.blogspot.com/2008...editor-of.html

[Robert Bandanza]

BY ČTK / PUBLISHED 12 AUGUST 2008

Prague, Aug 11 (CTK) - The meeting of far-right supporters scheduled for Saturday will be held in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, but it definitely would not be the largest extremist meeting in the country as media reported, extra-parliamentary Workers' Party head Tomas Vandas told CTK Monday.

The daily Lidove noviny wrote last week that up to 6000 people might attend the meeting.

Vandas said some 300 to 400 people were expected to arrive between 12:30 and 14:00 at Hradec Kralove train station to take part in a concert and political meeting.

He did not say where the event would be staged.

Policeman Petr Burian who specialises in extremism said the police had no other information than those posted on the Workers' Party website.

However, Burian said it was still possible that it might be a breakthrough event and for example that supporters of the National Resistance movement would participate in it.

Vandas said the far-right leaders who will deliver addresses at the event will focus on the criticism of the current political system and the forthcoming regional elections.

Representatives of far-right groups from Germany and Slovakia are to attend the meeting, too.

The organisers warn the participants on the website not to give the police any reason to intervene.

This has been long-term tactics of these extremist groups in order to win broader support and try to enter parliamentary structures, Frantisek Vales from the Czech Helsinki Committee said following a concert of rightist extremists held on August 2 in south Moravia.

Experts agree that Czech rightist extremists are preparing ground for entering politics.

http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/398/...al_news/26662/

[Karl Lueger]

Some good things from Pavel..
"when every country..will be an equal partner within the new pan-European geopolitical structure. I mean EuroRussia, not just “United Europe”, because Russia has its own destiny and mission in the World.
...this does not diminish our pro-European strategy, because we are tied with Europe by historical and genetic connections."

Important to keep in mind, esp. for Our Race;
"In a hundred years, the political map of the world will look far from the way it looks today."
But more than likely much sooner than 100 years..

[Robert Bandanza]

Prague, Aug 14 (CTK) - The Vlast (Homeland) Internet radio station connected with the Czech extra-parliamentary ultra-right National Party (NS) will start broadcasting this month, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) reports today.

The programme of the web radio that will resume broadcasting after a two-year pause will offer rather racist songs, alternative political newscasts as well as traditional Czech fairy-tales and poetry, LN writes.

"We will keep playing politically incorrect songs on our radio. However, they are not racist from our point of view. On the contrary, you cannot find neo-Nazi oriented bands on our playlist," NS spokesman Pavel Sedlacek told the paper.

LN also writes that up to 20 people will participate in the radio station's operation which is to cost some 15,000 crowns a month.

All costs are to be covered by the NS that plans to use the radio ahead of the general election due in 2010, for instance.

LN recalls that the web radio had offered music with racist lyrics and pre-election speeches of the party candidates in 2005 and 2006.

After repeated criticism of the songs' lyrics, the radio broadcasting was terminated over the lack of finances, the paper writes.

It adds that experts in right-wing extremism do not believe the Vlast web radio will last long. They say the NS thereby only wants to promote itself.

The civilian counter-intelligence lists the National Party among right-wing extremist entities.

The party members drew attention in the past by their controversial statements about Romanies.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/enterta...nch_web_radio/

[Serbian]

Five foreigners detained in connection with attack against policemen in Varnsdorf

Five foreign nationals have been detained in connection with Saturday’s attack against a group of police officers in the North Bohemian town of Varnsdorf. A police spokeswoman said on Sunday charges were being prepared against the men. A group of foreign nationals allegedly attacked seven police officers off duty at 2:30 am on Saturday in one of the town’s bars. Personal revenge is believed to be behind the attack. According to TV Nova, one of the detained men is an Albanian national whose son was fined a year ago by one of the policemen. Police are still determining the precise number of the attackers.

http://www.radio.cz/en/news

[Serbian]

Pics from the latest 17.02 demos by Czech NS comrades in support of Serbian Kosovo.

[Jerry Galinda]

Originally Posted by Serbian

Pics from the latest 17.02 demos by Czech NS comrades in support of Serbian Kosovo.

Kosove je srbske - WITHOUT SERBIANS.

WHAT A POLITICAL DREAM.

[Robert Bandanza]

Brno - The Czech Constitutional Court (US) today finally confirmed a suspended sentence for a youth from Ostrava, North Moravia, for operating a webpage in which he called for "rahowa" (racial holy war).

The judges dismissed the youth's complaint as unsubstantiated.

"Even the fundamental right to the freedom of speech is not limitless," the court panel said.

"It can be reduced for the sake of the protection of rights and freedoms of other people or for the sake of protection of public security," it added.

The youth committed the crime in 2003, when he was underage.

He proclaimed hatred for Romanies and Jews on the webpage. He informed about the meetings celebrating Adolf Hitler's anniversary and published links to other webpage on the issue.

He greeted the webpage users with the Nazi salute, used the symbols of Nazi Germany and the abbreviation 88 meaning "Heil Hitler."

Last January, he received a 6-month sentence suspended for 15 months.

The ruling was also upheld by the Supreme Court.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zprav...webpage/373984

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/as...0022005en.html

...In September, the European Roma Rights Center, a regional non-governmental organization, and the League of Human Rights, Life Together and IQ Roma Service, published a report alleging coercive sterilizations of Romani women in the Czech Republic. Their research indicated that a practice which had officially been promoted in the 1970s and 1980s continued into the 1990s when Romani women were subjected to sterilization procedures without full and informed consent. According to the non-governmental organizations documented cases included instances in which no consent, in any form, had been sought prior to the operation; cases in which consent was obtained during delivery or shortly before delivery, during advanced stages of labour; or instances in which consent had been obtained in circumstances which could not be considered to amount to free and informed, as required by internationally recognized principles...