Plaintiff on Horakova case to be tried next month

Former communist prosecutor Ludmila Brozova Polednova who took part in the show trial of Milada Horakova, who was sentenced to death by the communist regime in 1950, will herself face trial next month, the Prague City Court said on Tuesday. Brozova Polednova, now aged 80, was one of the plaintiffs on the Horakova case. According to the police the trial was at variance even with communist laws of the time. Brozova Polednova is charged with aiding and abetting murder and if found guilty could get a sentence of up to 15 years. Horakova was the only woman that the communist regime executed for political reasons. No one has as yet been brought to justice for the crime. Most of the protagonists are already dead.