About 400,000 people gathered for a mass rally in Prague, reports CTK.
People came to protest against the reform regarding the funding of the state media. The authorities are planning to change the method of financing television and radio, and transfer it from a mandatory contribution of citizens and organizations to budget financing.
The protesters express concern that this opens the way for government control of the media and threatens their independence.
This is the largest protest in the Czech Republic in the last 40 years.