RFE security guards under investigation

The Office for the Protection of Private Data has begun investigating the activities of security guards at the US funded Radio Free Europe (RFE). The office suspects that the guards have been breaking Czech law by taking photographs and taping people who pass by the station's headquarters in Prague's city centre. Collected information on suspicious personalities is then sent on to the United States, a Czech newspaper recently reported.

Considered a potential target for a terrorist attack, the building's security was stepped up after September 11, 2001.

Author: Dita Asiedu