Lawyer Samková not to be charged for comparing Islam to Nazism

Lawyer Klara Samková, who compared Islam to Nazism and Communism during a seminar in the lower house, will not be charged, Czech Radio reported on Friday citing police sources. The police reportedly closed the case on the grounds that Samková’s statement came within the bounds of freedom of speech. The Turkish ambassador to Prague who was present at the hearing and a number of other foreign diplomats left the assembly hall in protest. The Lawyers’ Chamber which had considered expelling her for violation of the chamber’s ethical codex has also shelved the case.