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PRISON Radio Farda correspondent Parnaz Azima was sentenced by an Iranian court to one year in prison, after being convicted of “spreading anti-state propaganda,” according to a March 2 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty press release. Azima, who has Iranian and U.S. citizenship, had returned to work at Radio Farda in Prague after she’d been kept for eight months as a “virtual prisoner” in Iran last year.

DEPORTED American brothers Joseph Carrano and Jon Moore, who had been detained for overstaying their visas, have been deported to the United States, the daily Právo reported March 4. Moore cannot return to the Czech Republic for six months, while Carrano will have to wait a full year.
HURRICANE About 5,500 national power company customers were still without electricity March 2 after a violent storm, dubbed Hurricane Emma, raged through the Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported. At the height of the storm March 1, some 920,000 households were without power.
RESTORE Prague City Hall will soon be simultaneously restoring three architectural icons, the National Museum, the National Theater and Charles Bridge, the daily Lidové noviny reported March 3. The bridge project, already under way, will be completed in 2020 at a cost of more than 222 million Kč ($13.3 million). The museum project will last until 2018 at a cost of 4.5 billion Kč. The theater restoration will begin next year.
ČUNEK Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg is willing to tolerate the return of Jiří Čunek to government if the latter will provide him with all of his bookkeeping, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported March 4. Čunek had to resign his post in the fall amid charges of corruption.


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