CzechTek 2005 (Czech Tek, CZ Tekk, Czech Teknival, Czech Techno Festival) - July 29th - 30th/31st
After 4 PM, Saturday, July 30th 2005, police tried to cancel the party by extreme measures, using teargas, water cannon and police brutality. (CzechTek.FreeTekno.org)
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Environmentalists to complain in Brussels against CzechTek
(Czech News Agency, CTK, Prague) July 5th, 2006 - Environmentalists are preparing a complaint against a CzechTek rave to be held at the military training ground Hradiste in Doupov Hills in the vicinity of Karlovy Vary, west Bohemia, which they want to send to Brussels, they said. The Czech Environmentalists Association (CSOP) said that the military that has offered the land to the ravers did not take into consideration that the rare corncrakes will be rearing their young on the meadows of the hills in end-July when the party will take place... ..:. read here :.
CzechTek to be held at military training grounds in late July
(Czech News Agency, CTK, Prague) June 14th, 2006 - This year's CzechTek rave will be held at the military training grounds Hradiste, west Bohemia, on July 28-30 according to an agreement which the Defence Ministry and the rave's organisers signed, Defence Minister Karel Kuehnl (Freedom Union-US-DEU) said after the government's meeting. The military will provide only the plot for the rave, while the CzechTek organisers will look after the rest (secure medical services for the participants as well, the cleaning of the area after the event), Kuehnl added... ..:. read here :.
Vesecka wants police action against CzechTek to be reviewed-press
(Czech News Agency, CTK, Prague) May 19th, 2006 - Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecka has ordered the action by four policemen from Cheb, west Bohemia, against a participant in the CzechTek rave last year to be checked once more, Hospodarske noviny (HN) and Pravo write. The Interior Minister's inspection has concluded that the action was inappropriate and the conclusion was supported by the supervising state attorney... ..:. read here :.
Man convicted over CzechTek complains about police brutality
(Prague Daily Monitor, CTK, Tachov) May 11th, 2006 - Jiri Ammer, who was today given a suspended sentence for assaulting a public officer during the CzechTek rave last summer, told the court that the police attacked him and beat him. According to the charges, Ammer deliberately drove his car towards a policeman and knocked him down. The Tachov district court gave him 12-month suspended sentence with an 18-month probation. Ammer denies the charges. He claims that policemen on the contrary attacked him... ..:. read here :.
Police caught on CzechTek video not to be punished
(Prague Daily Monitor, CTK, Prague) April 22nd, 2006 - Four policemen from Cheb, West Bohemia, who were involved in the police action against the CzechTek 2005 rave in Mlynec last July, will not be punished, the daily Pravo reports. A video shows four police officers knocking down a young man and beating him with nightsticks though he offered no resistance. The video shows one of the policemen kicking in the lying body. Last July, Czech police dispersed the CzechTek rave near Mlynec, west Bohemia, using water cannons and tear gas. Dozens of people were injured during the police action, and ravers have accused the police of brutality... ..:. read here :.
Czech ravers protest in Strasbourg against violence
(Czech Happenings, CTK, Strasbourg) April 16th, 2006 - Czechs were among some 2000-3000 ravers from various countries who participated in a demonstration against police brutality and violence in Europe staged in Strasbourg yesterday. The protest rally was accompanied by techno music played from amplifiers on ravers' trucks. The happening was staged in Strasbourg since several European institutions, including the European Human Rights Court, are seated there. A protester wanted to hand over an appeal to the court... ..:. read here :.
U.S. human rights report criticises Czech, Slovak republics
(Prague Daily Monitor, CTK, Tachov - Washington/New York) March 8th, 2006 - The Czech government generally respects and protects citizens´ human rights though occasional violence and use of inappropriate force by police still persist, says a regular report by the U.S. Department of State on human rights in the world issued today. ... The report reminds the police crackdown on last year´s CzechTek rave, without taking any stand on it, but it writes that a number of NGOs and observers say that the police used inappropriate force... ..:. read here :.
Raver denies hurling Molotov cocktail at police during CzechTek
(Prague Daily Monitor, CTK, Tachov - Western Bohemia) February 23rd, 2006 - A 25-year-old participant of last year's CzechTek rave party denied in court today that he hurled a flammable Molotov cocktail at riot police, arguing he merely lit a piece of cloth stuck in a plastic bottle of water and accidentally let go while waving it at the police. The young man told the court he was drunk at the time and the bottle simply slipped out of his hand. The raver's account was even corroborated by the testimony of one of the officers taking part in the police crackdown. The state attorney accuses the raver of hurling a Molotov cocktail at the intervening riot police from a distance of 10 metres. The hurled water bottle caused no injuries... ..:. read here :.
Officer disguised as colleague during CzechTek crackdown
(Czech Happenings, CTK, Prague) February 23rd, 2006 - The Interior Ministry has recommended prosecuting a police officer who disguised himself as one of his colleagues during the strong-armed police crackdown against last June's CzechTek rave party, the daily Pravo writes, referring to information provided by a state attorney. Pravo points out the case is all the more serious because the offender wore his colleague's identification number on his uniform without the fellow officer's knowledge. The Interior Ministry's inspection bureau has recommended that the state attorney's office prosecute the offender for violating the rights of others... ..:. read here :.
Ombudsman: "Police overreacted to CzechTek rave"
(Czech News Agency, CTK, Brno) January 31st, 2006 - The police action at the July rave CzechTek 2005 in Mlynec, West Bohemia, was not adequate, ombudsman Otakar Motejl wrote in his report, pointing to the results of an investigation his office had carried out.
The police did not use all means to resolve the situation without the use of force, he wrote. Motejl stressed in his report that even if the police intervene against the people breaching the law, "adequate and correct steps" must be taken, which did not happen in the case of the Mlynec rave... ..:. read here :.
Court acquits one of last year's CzechTek participants
(Prague Daily Monitor, CTK, Tachov - Western Bohemia) January 25th, 2006 - The district court in Tachov, west Bohemia, today acquitted a 24-year-old man charged with intentionally driving his car into police officers during last year's CzechTek, an annual secretive outdoor techno party, which took place at the village of Mlynec near Tachov in July... ..:. read here :.
Court expels Italian protester against police's CzechTek raid
(Czech Happenings, CTK, Prague) January 16th, 2006 - Prague court expelled a young Italian national for 10 years from the Czech Republic over his inappropriate behaviour during a demonstration against the police crackdown on the CzechTek rave last summer. The young man, Luca Pietro Giacomo Barbich, drove his car into police officers. Moreover, the police found more than 11 grams of hashish on him. Barbich was found guilty of attacking a public official and of unauthorised production and possession of drugs... ..:. read here :.
Paroubek, Bublan refuse to inform Senate on CzechTek crackdown
(Prague Daily Monitor, CTK, Prague) January 7th, 2006 - Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka (opposition ODS) told CTK today that he is embarrassed about Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek (Social Democrats, CSSD) and Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan (unaffiliated, for CSSD) having refused to submit a report on the crackdown on last July's CzechTek rave... ..:. read here :.
MPs to debate activists' CzechTek report along with govt's
(Czech Happenings, CTK, Prague) September 16th, 2005 - Deputies will have activists' comments on the police action against the recent CzechTek rave at their disposal during the planned lower house debate on the event, along with the report submitted by the cabinet, activist David Cermak said and branded the government report untrue... ..:. read here :.
First protesters turn up at ParoubTek rave, further yet to come
(Czech Happenings, CTK, Primda) September 16th, 2005 - Only ten participants with a single sound system have so far arrived at the meadows in Mlynec, west Bohemia, where about 1,000 people are expected to attend a weekend rave, held in protest against the police action against the CzechTek rave in July... ..:. read here :.
Mehr als hundert Verletzte bei Polizeieinsatz
(Spiegel Online, Panorama, Prag) 30. Juli 2005 - Bei dem massiven Polizeieinsatz zur Auflösung einer Technoparty sind in Tschechien mehr als 100 Menschen verletzt worden. Mit Wasserwerfern und Tränengas war ein Sondereinsatzkommando gegen Jugendliche vorgegangen. Der Innenminister wies Kritik an dem harten Vorgehen zurück. Innenminister Frantisek Bublan hat heute Kritik zurückgewiesen, der Einsatz der Spezialkräfte sei unverhältnismäßig hart gewesen. Er sagte, nachdem Anwohner Anzeige erstattet hätten, habe der Generalstaatsanwalt nach Prüfung der Lage den Polizeieinsatz erlaubt. (fotostrecke hier / photos here) ..:. read here :.
Rave named after prime minister, ParoubTek, to be held in Mlynec
(PDM staff with CTK) September 14th, 2005 - A techno rave called ParoubTek will be held in Mlynec, west Bohemia, this weekend. The rave is a protest against the police crackdown on the CzechTek rave at the same place in late July. The upcoming rave, named for Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, kicks off on Friday and will end on Sunday, its organisers said... ..:. read here :.
Paroubek admits he underestimated CzechTek
(PDM staff with CTK) August 22nd, 2005 - Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek today admitted that he had underestimated the impact of the CzechTek music rave which was held in Mlynec, west Bohemia, in late July, as he did not know what CzechTek was and what problems could arise in connection with it... ..:. read here :.
Czech freetekno party ended by police assault.
(Indymedia Slovensko) In an series of hostile and irrational actions the Czech Police ended the CzechTek 2005 freetekno festival... ..:. read here :.
Czech Dance Festival Violence Triggers Anti-Government Protests
August 26th, 2005 (Bloomberg.com) The violent breakup of a Czech dance festival near the German border, which left 124 people injured, damaged the popularity of Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek and prompted nationwide demonstrations against police brutality. About 1,000 police used tear gas and water cannons on July 30 to end the 12th annual CzechTek, a techno-music festival held in a meadow 150 kilometers (93 miles) southwest of Prague that was attended by 5000 people. Television channel CT1 showed officers beating dancers with batons. In a photo on the Web site of Pravo, a Prague-based newspaper, an officer was shown holding a gun to a man's chest... ..:. read here :.
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Fotografie 29.7.2005 (11:30-14:30) - CzechTek 2005 Mlýnec - July 29th, 2005, Photography
Fotografie 30.7.2005 (17:30-18:30) - CzechTek 2005 Police Brutality - July 30th, 2005, Photography
Fotografie 30.7.2005 (19:00-20:30) - CzechTek 2005 Protest - July 30th, 2005, Photography
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