Tomas Nemecek

Lower house deputy Helena Valkova (ANO) remains government human rights commissioner and will not step down after Czech media criticised her for publishing a joint article with Communist prosecutor Josef Urvalek, government human rights commission member Tomas Nemecek (photo) told CTK today, on Thursday, January 16, 2020. Valkova, who also chairs the Chamber of Deputies committee on petitions, gained the support of the majority of the members of the government human rights commission, with two members, lawyer Nemecek and academic Hubert Smekal from the Masaryk University's Faculty of Social Sciences, resigning in protest. Urvalek is notorious for his lead role in the 1950s Communist show trials. When asked about the article she wrote with Urvalek in the second half of the 1970s, Valkova said she was not aware of his history and considered her work to be purely professional. The government human rights commission has 25 members, 15 of which represent government institutions and 10, including Nemecek and Smekal, represent the public. (CTK Photo/Roman Vondrous)

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