Jan Palach was a student activist who burnt himself to death 50 years ago this week to protest at the Soviet-led occupation of then Czechoslovakia. "He loved history and he was also interested in ...

Czechs paid tribute on Wednesday to a student activist who set himself on fire 50 years ago to protest for his country's freedom, with some warning that his rallying cry still resonates under the ...

05/03/2013 - Polish director Agnieszka Holland recalls Jan Palach’s tragedy in Czechoslovakia in 1969 for the mini-series Burning Bush Cineuropa: Around the time of the immolation of Jan Palach, who ...

On the 16th of January 2009, it will be 40 years from the self-burning of Jan Palach. He committed this act in protest against the progressing lethargy and pusillanimity of the Czechoslovak nation ...

For his directorial debut, Raymond Depardon traveled to Prague to document the funeral of Czechoslovak student Jan Palach, who died after setting himself on fire in protest against the Soviet ...

Newly and/or unexpectedly imposed tyranny can make people commit suicide. SO wrote Tomas G. Masaryk, founder and first President of the Czechoslovak Republic, who, as a young man, published a ...

PRAGUE (AP) — A memorial has been unveiled in Prague to honor a Charles University student who burned himself to death to protest the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia. Jan ...

A dramatization of the final months of a young philosophy student who became a national hero when he self-immolated himself in protest of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Robert Sedlácek ...