Ivana Tigridová dies at 82

Ivana Tigridová, the widow of the late Pavel Tigrid - a prominent representative of the Czechoslovak anti-Communist movement in exile - has died at the age of 82. She passed away at her home France on Saturday, the Czech ambassador to Paris, Pavel Fischer said. Mrs Tigridová had reportedly been ill for some time. Her funeral, to be attended by a small circle of family and friends, will take place on Tuesday. Ivana Tigridová and her husband moved to France in the 1960s, with Pavel Tigrid heading the exile journal Svědectví (Testimony). She worked together with her husband in publishing the magazine which opposed Czechoslovakia’s communist regime.