End of communist forced sterilisation

A Roma woman who suffered forced sterilisation in the Czech Republic in the 1990s reached an out of court settlement regarding compensation with a clinic in Ostrava on Tuesday. The conservative daily Lidové noviny hopes the practice, which had its roots in the communist era, has finally been ended: "The civil rights movement Charta 77 had already called attention to these goings on. Since the compensation was only agreed on yesterday, one can say that it was really only yesterday that communism ended in this 'branch of industry'. ... Since this practice outlived communism it's no surprise that those concerned are now turning to the European Court of Human Rights. In the case at hand it was exactly this threat that prompted the clinic in Ostrava to agree to compensation."

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