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RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 240, Part II, 13 December 2000


EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE

CZECH COMMISSIONER CRITICIZED OVER 'MORAVIAN RULING.' The
extraparliamentary Moravian Democratic Party (MDS) is to take legal
action against government commissioner for human rights Petr Uhl,
accusing him of "abuse of power," CTK reported on 12 December, citing
MDS chairman Ivan Drimal. In a letter addressed earlier this year to
Slovak deputy Premier Pal Csaky, Uhl recommended that no
representatives of the Moravian Association of Slovakia be included on
the Slovak Council for Nationalities, as the Moravians are not
recognized in the Czech
Republic as a separate nationality. Uhl is also opposed to introducing
that nationality as an option in the 2001 census. Also on 12 December,
the General Council of Czech Television dismissed General Director
Dusan Chmelicek, who was appointed to that post in January. Among
other things, Chmelicek has been criticized for having prevented the
broadcast of a program critical of the Sazka lottery company, which
might have caused the television to lose revenues. MS


HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT SAYS HOLOCAUST COMPENSATION TOO SMALL.
The Constitutional Court on 12 December unanimously struck down a
compensation law as discriminatory. The Federation of Jewish
Communities challenged
that law by arguing that while families of victims of the 1956
anti-communist uprising received 1 million forints ($3,300), relatives
of the victims of the Holocaust were given only 30,000 forints ($100).
In other news, the parliament approved a bill annulling court verdicts
handed down against who participated in the 1956 uprising. Justice
Minister Ibolya David called the measure "a missing link in the legal
and moral rehabilitation of the victims." MSZ


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