Timed to coincide with the visit of President Xi Jinping to Prague, a group of Czech NGOs – including Forum 2000, Amnesty International and Tibetan rights groups – have just launched the Information Centre for Democracy and Human Rights in China. Jakub Klepal, the head of Forum 2000, told me the Centre had been set up in response to a shift in Czech foreign policy toward closer relations with China in the last couple of years.
