123 refugees are currently suing the Czech government for illegally detaining them

5. 10. 2015

123 refugees who have been illegally incarcerated by the Czech authorities are suing the Czech government for being imprisoned. So far, in 36 case, the Czech courts have decided in their favour...

Czech Republic has opened a new prison-like refugee detention centre

5. 10. 2015

A new secure detention centre has been opened by the Czech authorities in a former prison in the village of Drahonice, west of Prague. 240 male refugees will be held here. In all, the C...

Czech journalist: Czech media spread racist hatred because there is money in it

3. 10. 2015

"Seriously, the levels of xenophobia are absolutely shocking in the Czech Republic," said Pavel Novotný, until recently the editor-in-chief of the tabloid Czech language website Extra.cz, in ...

Refugees complain of "shocking conditions in the refugee prisons" in the Czech Republic

1. 10. 2015

All the refugees that have been held in Czech detention centres testify that their incarceration in the Czech Republic has been the worst part of their journey in search of a safe haven in Eu...

On arrival in the Czech detention centres, the refugees are stripped naked. Hunger strikes are ignored. Will international organisations act?

30. 9. 2015

Syrian, Afghani and Iraqi families are imprisoned in the Czech "refugee detention centre" in Bělá-Jezová, says NGO activist Martina Ahmed-Čermáková, who has worked in the the facility as an i...

Czech MP: "Czech Home Secretary may well be prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity against the refugees"

30. 9. 2015

Jiří Zlatuška, former Vice-Chancellor of Brno University and a current Member of Czech Parliament, warned on Czech Television that the current Czech Home Secretary Chovanec may well be prosecu...

Poll: Some Czech army officers would not mind the introduction of death by stoning

29. 9. 2015

Some 50 per cent of the members of the Czech army and the army general staff would support such a political party which would offer a "radical solution of the Roma question". 5 per cent of Cz...

Syrian refugees fear the Czech detention centres

29. 9. 2015

Only 32 Syrian families have so far agreed to travel to the Czech Republic. Thus it may be difficult to fill the refugee quotas, says an official analysis, produced by the Czech government. ...

Czech NGOs: "Arbitrary detention of refugees in the Czech Republic is illegal"

29. 9. 2015

"We strongly protest against the continuing detention of refugees in Bělá-Jezová and other Czech government detention centres," says the Czech Consortium of Non-Government Organisations for H...

The Czech Helsinki Committee:

The Czech authorities illegally detain the refugees

27. 9. 2015

Individuals who have not committed any crimes are being detained in prison-like conditions. Their cash and their mobile phones are illegally confiscated. It follows from numerous testimonies that...