Access to European Union law
<a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/help/eurlex-content/experimental-features.html" target="_blank">More about the experimental features corner</a>
Choose the experimental features you want to try
EUR-Lex
Access to European Union law

This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website

You are here
Use quotation marks to search for an "exact phrase". Append an asterisk (*) to a search term to find variations of it (transp*, 32019R*). Use a question mark (?) instead of a single character in your search term to find variations of it (ca?e finds case, cane, care).
Search tips
Need more search options? Use the Advanced search

Document 92001E001075

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1075/01 by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Council. Allegations of police brutality in the Czech Republic.

IO C 340E, 4.12.2001, pp. 164–165 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

European Parliament's website​

Date of document:
05/04/2001; Dáta tarchurtha
Date of dispatch:
05/04/2001
Date of reply:
16/07/2001; Freagra i scríbhinn
Author:
Parlaimint na hEorpa, Not available
Form:
Ceist scríofa
Addressee:
Comhairle an Aontais Eorpaigh
Parliamentary term:
An cúigiú téarma
Political group:
Páirtí an Phobail Eorpaigh

92001E1075

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1075/01 by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Council. Allegations of police brutality in the Czech Republic.

Official Journal 340 E , 04/12/2001 P. 0164 - 0165


WRITTEN QUESTION E-1075/01

by John Cushnahan (PPE-DE) to the Council

(5 April 2001)

Subject: Allegations of police brutality in the Czech Republic

Is the Council aware of the allegations of police brutality in the Czech Republic during the meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Prague in September 2000? Following the violation of the rights of the people detained after the protests, what does the Council intend to do to ensure that the Czech Republic investigates all complaints of torture and ill-treatment in an impartial manner?

Reply

(16 July 2001)

The Council has received no specific information concerning allegations of police brutality in the Czech republic during the meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Prague in September 2000.

The Council attaches the utmost importance to the respect, by the candidate countries, of the principles of democracy, the rule of law and human rights. With regard to the Czech Republic, the Council notes that the Commission's 2000 Regular Report on the Czech Republic's progress towards accession concluded that the country continued to fulfil the Copenhagen political criteria. It can be noted in particular that the Czech Republic has continued to develop its internal institutional framework in the field of human rights by following the establishment in 1998 of a Human Rights Commissioner with the creation in February 2000 of the office of the Public Protector of Rights (Ombudsman), who is empowered to deal with a range of matters including complaints concerning the police.

If it turns out that there has been a violation of the fundamental principles mentioned above then the appropriate representations to the Czech Republic, particularly within the framework of the bodies established by the Europe Agreement, could be envisaged.

Top