Five police officers punished for detaining Young Social Democrats

The Czech police leadership have imposed disciplinary punishment on five police officers who detained several members of the Young Social Democrats during a May Day demonstration this year. The detained later complained of being bullied, for example of being forced to strip naked and perform physical exercises. The police leadership said that the policemen made a "tactical error" and failed to cope with organisational issues, the Czech police official website says. Police detained some 20 people after the Young Social Democrats clashed in Prague with the supporters of the nationalist Patriotic Front and the National Unification party. The Social Democrats said the police behaved in a scandalous way and that they were humiliated during the detention.