Student Marches to Converge on Central Prague for Public-Media Protest
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Students from Prague's universities will gather on Republic Square on Tuesday afternoon for a demonstration in support of public service media. They will be marching in several processions for the event, which is scheduled to begin symbolically at 4:36 p.m. Around 2:40 p.m., the crowd set off on a march toward Republic Square.
Students and teachers from various universities took to the streets in Prague to protest against planned changes in the funding of the public-law media. Hundreds gathered at a closing rally in the evening on the Republic Square in the centre of the Czech capital.
The Czech government's new media bill is sparking huge protests and tension. The government wants to change the way public media is financed, abolishing subscription fees and transferring the costs to the state budget. Students, journalists and citizens fear that this will give the political authorities greater influence over the media and use it for propaganda purposes.
Czech university students fight for independent television and radio. The post Students in the Czech Republic took to the streets: Mass protests demand a halt to government changes and support for the media was first displayed by interez.sk.
PRAGUE - Students of Czech universities held several rallies across the Czech Republic on Tuesday in support of public media. Prague university students gathered symbolically at 4:36 p.m. on Republic Square in the city center and demanded that the government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš withdraw the proposal to change the financing of Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo) and start a professional discussion. Students of some universities…
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