Hundreds of people protest in Prague against US radar base
praguemonitor.com     Jul 9, 2008            

By ČTK / Published 9 July 2008 Prague, July 8 (CTK) - Hundreds of people came to Prague's Wenceslas Square yesterday to protest against the signature of the treaty on stationing a U.S. radar base on Czech soil and the following march to Prague Castle. The treaty was signed in Prague today by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg. The police estimated the number of protestors at 1800 while the organisers from the No to Bases group speak about 3000 people. The Prague police spokeswoman told CTK no incident has been reported during the demonstration. During the unannounced march the participants blocked traffic at some places of Prague for several tens of minutes. Close to Prague Castle the riot police blocked the demonstrators' access to the area around Prague Castle and the... [read full story]                    


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