Czech authorities fined nine “English-speaking” Jewish protesters who ignored police requests to leave an office construction site above a former Jewish cemetery in Prague. Earlier this week, three Jewish protesters were fined for trespassing at the same site on Vladislavova Street, which lies half a mile from the city’s famous Old Jewish Cemetery.
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