Prague councilors pay homage to student martyr Jan Zajíc

City councilors on Friday paid homage to the memory of Jan Zajíc, the student who burned himself to death on February 25, 1969 in protest against growing public apathy to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia the year before. The mayor of Prague 1, Terezie Radoměřská, said the legacy of Jan Zajíc, Jan Palach and others, was very much alive in the present day and age. Like Palach, Zajíc has a memorial plaque on the spot where he set himself on fire on Wenceslas Square 39.