Czechia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- January 1, 1993, amended several times, last in 2002
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- civil law based on Austro-Hungarian codes
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate (Senat) and Chamber of Deputies (Snemovna Poslancu)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court and Constitutional Court; presidents and vice-presidents appointed by the President for 10 years
RELIGIONS
26.8% Catholics, 2.1% Protestants, 59% independents, other
From the country
- MARCH 31, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
About 75 members of the far-right Republican Youth,...
About 75 members of the far-right Republican Youth, National Front and the National United Bloc took part in a demonstration against drugs
- MARCH 15, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The number of supporters of capital punishment in the...
The number of supporters of capital punishment in the Czech Republic is decreasing, this year it reached 59 percent, which is the lowest figure since 1992
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Freedom Union Deputy chairman Vladimir Mlynar believes...
The Freedom Union Deputy chairman Vladimir Mlynar believes that Europe might resume a discussion on the introduction of the death sentence in the future and that the Czech Republic should take part in it
- NOVEMBER 6, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
It is dangerous to pull out the card of the reintroduction...
It is dangerous to pull out the card of the reintroduction of the death penalty more than ten years after the capital punishment was abolished by the then Czechoslovak parliament, Zemske Noviny (ZN) member Josef Petru wrote in the daily newspaper Pravo
- NOVEMBER 5, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
In a televised debate Prime Minister Milos Zeman (Czech...
In a televised debate Prime Minister Milos Zeman (Czech Social Democratic Party) said he was against the death penalty being re-established in the Czech Republic to handle the most serious cases
- JUNE 24, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party...
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party organised a demonstration against the legalisation of drugs
- JUNE 17, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation...
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Crimes (UDV) said in its report Performed Capital Punishments in Czechoslovakia in 1918-1989 that Czechoslovak courts sentenced to death 1,207 people between 1918 and 1989 when the capital punishment w
- MAY 12, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech anarchists were to hold demonstrations in Prague...
Czech anarchists were to hold demonstrations in Prague and in the Moravian capital Brno to protest against the planned execution in the US of African-American activist and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted of murdering a police officer
- APRIL 26, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Czech republic cosponsored and voted in favour of the...
Czech republic cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced...
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced while 26 percent disagree with it, according to a poll conducted by the IVVM polling agency
- JANUARY 1, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
Official statistics show that in recent years, the...
Official statistics show that in recent years, the number of criminal cases in the Czech Republic stood at about 400,000 each year, almost double that before 1990
- JANUARY 1, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
A total of 1,207 people, including 75 women, were executed...
A total of 1,207 people, including 75 women, were executed under the death sentence in former Czechoslovakia from 1918 to July 1990, when the death sentence was abolished