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Migrants Go On Hunger Strike At Czech Detention Centre

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants launched a hunger strike in one of the detention centres in the Czech Republic on Tuesday to protest against the duration of their stay, volunteers visiting the facility said. The Czech Republic has avoided

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RIGHT TO SEX: Czechs See First ‘Sexual Assistants’ For Disabled People

The Czech Republic’s first five female “sexual assistants” specifically trained to provide paid services to disabled people have started work. The organisation ‘Bliss Without Risk’ (‘Rozkos Bez Rizika’ – R+R), which helps sex workers and promotes the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, trained the

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Czech President: Migrants Using Children As ‘Human Shields’

Prague (AFP) – The Czech president Sunday accused economic migrants of using children as “human shields” in their bid to reach Europe, as the continent grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War II. President Milos Zeman has made

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Vigilantes ‘Protecting’ Citizens From Migrants

A group of vigilantes boarded a train in the Czech Republic, pledging to ‘protect’ passengers from migrants, eye witnesses have claimed. The men joined the train from Prague to the city of Czeske Budejovice wearing camouflage jackets and green military

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Czech Airports Report Massive Influx of Illegal Immigrants

Police report that they have arrested double the number of illegal immigrants at Czech international airports as they did last year. Most of the aliens were arrested at Prague’s international airport, and a sizeable number of them arrived on planes from Turkey and Greece.

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Italy Hands Smuggler Unprecedented Life Sentence as Europe Prepares for Migrant Deluge

A court in Catania, Italy, has sentenced 23-year-old Haj Hammouda Radouan to life in prison for manning an illegal migrant ship that capsized in the Mediterranean, killing an estimated 200 people. It is the first such sentence in Italy’s history, a precedent arriving just as the nation prepares for the summer rise in African migrants attempting to reach European shores.