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CZECH REPUBLIC: Military police unit head resigns over TV raid

01 May 2011

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CZECH REPUBLIC: Military police unit head resigns over TV raid (czechposition, link): The head of Prague Military Police, Drahoslav Blažek, has resigned from his post over a controverisal raid on Czech Television (CT):

"The head of the Military Police Security Service in Prague, Drahoslav Blažek, has resigned from his post over a controversial raid of journalists’ offices at Czech public television by armed commandoes, the daily Lidové noviny (LN).. the military police confiscated enough documents and computers to fill eight large bags, those for which the search warrant was issued were not found; Military Police have since returned all confiscated items.

The judge who issued the search warrant, Kryštof Nový, said he was “shocked” by the heavy handed nature of the raid and the number of documents and computers confiscated. “I issued permission for the confiscation of one piece of documental evidence, perhaps also the folder in which it was contained or copies to be made, but certainly not for the confiscation of a whole office”

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