Jan Palach remembered in Prague

Events have been held in Prague to commemorate the death of Jan Palach on January 19, 1969. Palach died three days after setting himself on fire on Wenceslas Square in protest at the public’s apathy in the wake of the Soviet-led invasion of the previous August. Students at Charles University’s Arts Faculty, where Palach himself was enrolled, laid flowers and candles by a plaque dedicated to him on the wall of the building. Meanwhile, Prague’s Aero cinema was set to screen a film in his honour.