Prague, Nov 22: Czech police made several arrests during a protest in central Prague against the two-day Nato summit being held here, and later expelled two of them from the country. The arrests came as a group of up to 1,000 demonstrators, shouting slogans against the United States' policy toward Iraq and brandishing red and black banners, tried to march on the conference centre where the leaders of the Atlantic alliance were convened.

One of the expelled youths, from Germany, has been known to Czech police as an "undesirable person" since he participated in similar protests against an IMF and World Bank meeting in the Czech capital two years ago, police spokesman Jan Holub said.
His identity papers were "not in order" as well, as were those of a Polish demonstrator who was also ordered expelled, Holub said.

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Both men have 24 hours to leave the country, according to the expulsion order handed down by the police forces in charge of handling foreigners.
Police did not give the names and ages of the two.

During the three-hour left-wing demonstration in Prague's historic centre, between 800 and 1,000 protesters paraded with banners in Czech and English marked "stop the war" and "together against NATO terror" and shouted messages aimed notably at US President George W Bush. Bureau Report