Communist MP accused of beating up political prisoners in the past

Former political prisoners say that one of the guards who beat them up in prison is now a deputy for the Communist Party. The official in question is reportedly MP Josef Vondruska who worked as a guard in the Minkovice prison in north Bohemia from 1972 to 1990. Former dissident Jiri Wolf who was imprisoned there for political reasons in the 70s told the Mlada Fronta Dnes daily that Vondruska had beaten him up daily when he was on hunger strike. Vondruska has dismissed the allegations as "nonsense" saying he had behaved in accordance with the law.