Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:54:09 +0200Man sets himself alight on Wenceslas Squarehttps://english.radio.cz/man-sets-himself-alight-wenceslas-square-8071559© 2026 Radio Prague International The Czech Republic was in shock on Thursday after a nineteen-year old man set himself alight on Prague's Wenceslas Square, close to where Jan Palach immolated himself in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. From a letter left by the man on the internet, it appears that today's incident is also a political protest. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/upaleni1.jpg?timestamp=1590256802 Man sets himself alight on Wenceslas Square https://english.radio.cz/man-sets-himself-alight-wenceslas-square-8071559 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9