1960s drug test killed jailed political leader, says daily

A Social Democrat politician died after being given hallucinogenic drugs while in prison in the 1960s, Pravo reported. It quoted an StB secret police file made public by the Czech foreign intelligence service. It said Bohumil Lausman had developed a weak heart after over a decade in jail, and failed to withstand the StB's drug experiment. Lausman had escaped to Austria but was kidnapped in 1953 and brought back to Czechoslovakia, where he received a 17-year prison term.