Who we are
We are a civil association of those, to whom the Czech courts weren´t able, or didn´t want, to secure their rights. And because we never permit to take us our rights off, we defend ourselves at the European Court for the Human Rights in Strasbourg. Some of our co-citizens, employed by the European Court, do everything possible to prevent our applications to be ever seen by the judges of the court.
The European Court for the Human Rights (ECHR) is one of the institutions of The Council of Europe (CE) and was founded for the purpose to secure strict keeping of the Agreement on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms by all member countries. Any citizen, any community, any association or company can address the ECHR with its application saying that some of the member countries of the Council of Europe (CE) has broken some of the articles of the Agreement in its particular case and ask for compensation. The ECHR can´t abolish or change the decissions of inland courts but inflicts the duty to the respective government to compensate the applicant for the fact that his right based on the Agreement the state institutions haven´t secured.
In the Czech Republic the human rights are still being broken. People are not executed or deported in a massive way so that the Czech Republic could be seen as a democratic and legal state especially from the abroad view. But the breaking of the human rights and fundamental freedoms happens in more cultivated way. Comparing to the events which happenned in Bosnia or Kosovo it could seem to someone that what happens in our country are only banalities. Depriving of a family house, unreasoned custody, taking up of a land by a neighbour, injuring the health by state approved health harming products, unrespecting of the family life, non - compensating the damage, especially when caused by a state body, confiscation of the property by a non-reasoned execution and similar cases do mean a massive interference of the same strength to the private life of a damaged person in our cultural ambient, often even with sequences to his health.
The only way, which we here, in western and central Europe, have agreed as being acceptable to solve the disputes , is the court treatment. The courts have at their disposal laws and they are obliged to investigate who has broken the laws and agreements and decide in the favour of people who have strictly kept laws and agreements, eventually to punish those whom the guilt has been proved. The judges are obliged to decide in accordance with laws and presented evidence. But instead of this they decide in a different way too often. We know about cases when the judges not only haven´t decided in accordance with the law, but even haven´t considered substantial evidence or even have decided completely in the counter-way that previews the law. We even know about cases when the judge has decided on the base of his own lie.
There are mostly members of the former pre-revolution (meaning revolution of November 1989) establishment, closely connected to nowadays policy, big companies and the state who usually win at the courts. We - the others - usually loose, even we can read in the laws, that we were right. The judges are never investigated or even interrogated by the criminal police and there are judges again who go together with big companies to create undertakers´committee.
The majority of the population doesn´t mind this status, but we, the demaged ones, we shall defend. We have well studied our rights and our duties before we passed our applications or our expressions to the claims against us. We have also well studied the Agreement and the Inner Order before we have passed our applications to the European Court for the Human Rights. The majority of the laws is understandable. When we know our rights today, the more decided to defend them we are. We are ready to used to go to Strasbourg so long, until we succeed. None of the west European countries can afford to admit openly and in front of the public that in Europe the human rights are not kept. We have been discussing with the Commissioner of the CE for the human rights and we shall step by step discuss with the chairman of the CE, with parliament assembly members of the CE and we shall also address the governments and the parliaments of western Europe countries.
We want our applications against the Czech Republic to be properly translated to one of the official languages of the ECHR and properly treated and to be seen and decided by the judges. So far it is not so. All our applications have finished in the hands of the court staff which have only numbered them and laid out to the archives. Only those applications where people complained against unacceptable delays in court treatments, were presented to judges.
We have realized that as far as the Czech justice being under the influence of the political parties and only the officials will decide about the applications at the European Court for the Human Rights, the Czech Republic won´t be neither democratic, nor the legal state. We have no courage to criticize other countries for breaking the human rights or to give any advice to their disidents as far as we haven´t made order in our own country. Therefore we shall make our best effort in order that all applications which we have filed to be properly seen and judged in accordance with the Agreement. We want to propose to the General Assembly of the judges such changes in the Inner Order of the Court so that too strong influence of the officials on the seen applications is prevented. We want to push forward the demand to strengthen the Court by higher number of the judges and simultaneously to upgrade its budget considerably. The Court is paid also from our taxes and therefore it´s in the interest of all of us the Court to be paid better. We also want to make an effort that all persons from the Court staff who take part in nowadays situation of the Court are released and that the Court in its future employes preferably these people who are well-known in public for their activities in the field of the human rights in their respetive country.
