On Wednesday 11 December, Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, published the letters sent to the Prime Minister and to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic asking them to urgently extend the law on compensation for victims of forced sterilisation between 1966 and 2012.
This text, which came into force in 2022, will expire on 1 January next year, despite the fact that “some victims may have...