Supreme State Attorney asks for review in case of former communist prosecutor

Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecká has asked for an appellate review of a court decision in the case of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former communist prosecutor involved in the show trial of politician Milada Horáková in the 1950s. Mrs Horáková was found guilty and executed by the Communists on trumped up charges of espionage and treason. In early February the Prague High Court halted Mrs Brožová-Polednová’s prosecution based on the statute of limitations, saying that the former communist prosecutor’s role had not been a crucial one and did not qualify as judicial murder. Prior to the decision, a lower-instance court had sentenced the 86-year old Brožová-Polednová to eight years in prison.

Author: Jan Velinger