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Former KKK leader detained in Prague
April 24, 2009 16:12 EDT
PRAGUE (AP) -- Former Klan leader David Duke has been detained by police in the Czech Republic on suspicion of denying the Holocaust.
Duke went there at the invitation of neo-Nazis to promote the Czech translation of a book he wrote.
A police spokesman says the book includes a denial of the Holocaust.
The denial is a crime that is punishable by up to three years in Czech prisons.
Charles University in Prague banned a lecture by Duke that had been scheduled today for students taking a course in extremism.
Duke is from Louisiana, and is a former Republican state lawmaker.
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Former KKK leader ordered to leave Czech Republic
April 25, 2009 08:32 EDT
PRAGUE (AP) -- Czech authorities have released former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke from detention and ordered him to leave the country.
Police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova says Duke must leave the Czech Republic by midnight Saturday after he was detained on suspicion of denying the Holocaust.
Duke was in Prague on an invitation from a neo-Nazi group to promote the Czech translation of his book "My Awakening." Police took him into custody Friday on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in the Czech Republic.
Prague's Charles University also banned Duke from giving a lecture there Friday. He was scheduled to give lectures over the weekend in both Prague and the country's second-largest city of Brno.
