Ministry fails to block anti-Muslim campaigner from staging event at Saudi embassy

The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has failed in a bid to prevent anti-Muslim campaigner Martin Konvička from holding an event in front of Prague’s Embassy of Saudi Arabia on September 11. Mr. Konvička recently made headlines by staging a “mock Islamic State invasion” on the city’s Old Town Square. Prague City Hall said it could not meet the Foreign Ministry’s request for the planned event to be banned or moved because there were no legal reasons for doing so. Officials said the ministry was responsible for the security of other states’ diplomatic missions and that there were a number of other such offices near the Saudi embassy.