The police estimate the number of participants at several hundred, while the organisers speak about 1200.
The participants met outside Prague Castle, the presidential seat, in the afternoon, and then they marched through the Lesser Town to the U.S. embassy.
They also protested against the military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan and a possible attack on Iran.
The demonstration was previously supported by the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) and the Communists (KSCM).
KSCM spokeswoman Monika Horeni, KSCM deputy Vaclav Exner and former CSSD foreign minister Jan Kavan appeared at the protest event.
The radar opponents carried banners, for instance, with the inscription "Radar=New Occupation" and chanted various slogans. Some of them carried dummies, featuring U.S. President George Bush, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech PM Mirek Topolanek.
On this occasion, people can also sign petitions against the radar base that the United States plans to build the Brdy military district, some 90km southwest of Prague, along with a base with ten defence missiles in Poland as elements of the missile defence shield.
The Czech centre-right government has been negotiating with the United States about the radar base for about a year and it plans to complete the talks in the weeks to come.
Bush and Topolanek (Civic Democrats, ODS) said in Washington in late February that the bilateral agreement on the base is within easy reach.
According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM), two-thirds of Czechs disagree with the building of the U.S. base, while only one-fourth support the idea.
The Czech left-wing opposition is against the base. The project is also sharply criticised by Russia.
Author: ČTK
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