Former prosecutor of Horakova appeals against court’s verdict

The attorney for Ludmila Brozova-Polednova, a former prosecutor from the show trial with Milada Horakova, will appeal a verdict under which Mrs Polednova was sentenced to eight years in prison for judicial murder. Ludmila Brozova-Polednova, who is now 86, sat on the panel that condemned the democratic politician Milada Horakova to death in 1950, under the Czechoslovak Communist regime. Mrs Horakova was the only woman ever to be executed in communist Czechoslovakia for political reasons.