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LIBYA The Foreign Affairs Ministry denies involvement in a compensation deal that freed five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor from a Libyan jail last month, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported. The Libyan government said July 28 that the Czech government had paid into an international compensation fund. The six medics had been imprisoned since 1999, and were sentenced to death following accusations of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV.

WOUNDED A Czech soldier stationed in Afghanistan was shot in the leg July 29, Právo reported July 31, making him the first Czech injured there in action. He is expected to fully recover, ČTK reported. A total of 83 Czech troops are stationed in the Faizabad area in a NATO-led peacekeeping operation.
RIGHTS The UN Human Rights Committee criticized the Czech Republic in a report released July 27 for continuing to segregate Romany (or Gypsy) children in schools, failing to compensate Romany women who were sterilized without their consent and for not banning the use of caged beds in mental institutions, ČTK reported.
NATO Former Defense Minister Jiří Šedivý will serve as NATO deputy secretary general for defense policy and planning, ČTK reported July 31. He was selected from among more than 20 candidates. He is the first Czech in history to serve in a top NATO post, and is expected to take over the position in September.
TRIAL The State Attorney’s Office charged former prosecutor Ludmila Brožová-Polednová July 27 for her part in the show trial and execution of Milada Horáková in 1950, ČTK reported. Horáková was executed on trumped-up charges of treason and espionage for political actions against the Communist Party.


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