The Justice Ministry will ask South Africa to extradite Czech fugitive businessman Radovan Krejčíř, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported April 23. Krejčíř was arrested at the Johannesburg airport after entering the country under a false identity, ČTK reported. Krejčíř, accused of organized crime, fled Prague for the Seychelles Islands in 2005.

Former dissident Petr Uhl has left the government’s human rights council over recent “xenophobic” comments made by Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek, he told ČTK April 20. Čunek has refused calls to resign over his statements and amid allegations of corruption.

Right-wing extremist groups demonstrated in Prague, Plzeň and Kladno April 21, Lidové noviny reported April 23. Officials believe they were commemorating the April 20 birthday of Adolf Hitler but gathered under other pretenses to avoid breaking anti-fascism laws.

A Czech base in southern Iraq was hit by a missile April 23, ČTK reported. No one was injured. The attack, part of a 15-missile strike on allied multinational forces in Basra, destroyed three vehicles used by the 89-person Czech unit. The soldiers remained in shelters during the missile strike.

The Czech Republic and other East European countries serve the world’s unhealthiest fast food, according to a Danish study. Nutritionist Steen Stender said that fast food here contains some of the highest levels of trans fat, which he called a “silent killer.”