Mene Tekel festival opens in Prague

The 3rd annual multicultural festival Mene Tekel opened in Prague on Monday with a demonstration against totalitarianism on Prague’s Old Town Square. The five-day festival aims to highlight various forms of communist oppression and the impact it had on people’s lives. Among the many festival events taking place in different parts of Prague is an exhibition at Prague’s Charles University dedicated to the first victims of the communist regime who were put to death in the hard-line 1950s. The festival is organized by the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian regimes.