PRESS RELEASE 
OF THE STRASBOURG COMMITTEE
Pilsen, June 23rd, 2004
On Monday, June 21st, the Strasbourg Committe visited the Council of Europe where referred on the violances of the human rights in the Czech Republic. Members of the Committee held individual discussions with members of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and then maintained a speech in the deputees´ club of the European People´s Party. The Strasbourg Committee acquinted deputees with main spheres in which the state authorities of the Czech Republic violate human rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Protection. The deputees of the European People´s Party proposed to the Strasbourg Committee their interest and help.
By this event and after the initiation of discussion with the executive body (on March 5th, 2004 with Mr. Alváro Gil-Robles, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe) the Strasbourg Committee initiated the discussion with the supreme body of the Council of Europe.
The Strasbourg Committee drew the attention of the deputees of CE to facts that in 2000 weren´t called the proper elections to the Prague Region when the Czech Parliament only named the Prague municipal deputees as the regional deputees. The elections are not planned to be called even in 2004 again. Next point was there was no equality secured for the parents after the divorce because the courts did not provide any protection to this parent who did not have the children in his care especially regarding the right to see and educate his children. Czech Republic doesn´t provide any support to the private property as the construction authorities do not demolish black (illegal) constructions on the lots of other persons, do not punish the constructors who make demages to the neighbours´ property and the state authorities protect those who have gained their family houses very cheaply from the state as the confiscated properties after those ones who had to leave former communist Czechoslovakia because of political reasons. The Czech laws do not protect savings on the accounts in foreign currances. The state authorites are tolerant towards demages of health caused by the temperature measurements in houses, they are tolerant towards overpricing of energies to households, especially drinking water. The Courts very often carry out distresses not against the real deptors but against third persons. The citizens are too often kept under arrest in illegal custody conditions even in cases where the law imposing of the custody doesn´t make possible. The Courts do not hold proper evidence procedure. Czech judges work very slowly and their sentences are very often in the favour of those who interfere the Law. Such sentences are based not on the results of the evidence procedure (as it certainly should be) but on the opinions of judges themselves, mostly wrong ones. 
The Strasbourg Committee pointed out the Czech state authorities can afford to violate human rights because not all the complaints of the Czech citizens to the ECHR are presented to its judges to make decissions and the complainents are untruely informed that their complaints were rejected as unacceptable. The only exception were 17 complaints on delays in procedures.
											Dalibor Pech
											spokesman