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19.1.2021 12:05
Stanislav Křeček in a report broadcast by the Prima TV station in February 2016 (PHOTO: TV Prima).
Stanislav Křeček, the Public Defender of Rights (ombudsman) in the Czech Republic, published the full wording of his comments on the Czech Government s draft Roma Strategy for 2021-2030 last week after nonprofit organizations criticized a press release issued by his office about the Strategy. Unlike his official press release, his full comments once again make light of discrimination against Romani people, above all in the housing sector, and criticize the Strategy s claim that there is a lack of data available.
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Volunteer civil society members of Czech Govt Roma Council: ombudsman intentionally undermining the dignity of Romani people
19.1.2021 15:31
Czech ombudsman Stanislav Křeček (left) and chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust, Čeněk Růžička (right - photographed during a previous session of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs). (Collage: Romea.cz)
Several volunteer civil society members of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs issued a statement yesterday criticizing the current Public Defender of Rights (ombudsman) in the Czech Republic, Stanislav Křeček, for his publicized remarks about the Government s draft Roma Strategy for 2021-2030. The civil society members observe that the ombudsman seems not to understand the extent of his own powers when he alleges that the production of a report reflecting new findings in relation to the issue of illegally-performed sterilizations would not be part of hi
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Four Czech senators undertake sole official honoring of the memory of Jan Palach, who set himself on fire 52 years ago to protest the Soviet occupation
17.1.2021 9:19
Jan Palach was the Charles University student who set himself on fire on 16 January 1969 to protest the end of the Prague Spring after the August 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. A copy of his death mask is now the centerpiece of the Jan Palach memorial on Charles University s Faculty of Arts building on Jan Palach Square in Prague. (Collage: Romea.cz)
Czech Senator Miloš Vystrčil, who presides over the upper house, said yesterday that when the student Jan Palach set himself on fire on Wenceslas Sqaure in Prague 52 years ago, it was an unprecedented act in defense of freedom and an effort to lead the nation out of its unfree condition. Palach undertook his demonstration in January 1969 as an attempt to arouse people from the lethargy into which Czechoslovak society had fallen
MEP Peter Pollák, a Romani community member from Slovakia, posts footage of his vaccination against COVID-19 to combat conspiracy theories influencing the community
30.12.2020 16:33
Romani community member and MEP Peter Pollák was vaccinated against COVID-19 in Slovakia on 29 December 2020. (PHOTO: Facebook page of Peter Pollák)
Peter Pollák (
OĽaNO), a current MEP and former Slovak Government Plenipotentiary for Romani Communities, was vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday at the Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Košice. He told the TASR wire service that he wants to convince the Romani community in Slovakia that undergoing vaccination is the only way the world will eventually defeat the novel coronavirus.
Czech MP publishes collage comparing vaccinations against COVID-19 to the Holocaust and using imagery of the gate at Auschwitz
15.1.2021 8:34
The collage published on 10 January 2021 by Czech MP Lubomír Volný.
The abuse of the memory of Holocaust victims as part of rejecting vaccination against COVID-19 is continuing in the Czech Republic. After several demonstrators against the vaccination rollout wore yellow Jewish stars to public events inscribed with the term Unvaccinated , Czech MP Lubomír Volný (Jednotní), who was initially elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the list of Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, has published a distasteful collage in which the message of the sign that hung over the Auschwitz concentration camp, Arbeit macht frei , has been changed to read Vaccine macht Frei .