Lidove noviny: StB probably used threat of jail to enlist Nohavica

Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny - quoting Interior Ministry files - has reported that the communist era secret police, the StB, probably enlisted singer/songwriter Jaromir Nohavica as a collaborator in exchange for dropping criminal charges of sedition against him. The newspaper writes that the StB had used the threat of a prison term to blackmail Mr Nohavica. The news follows an earlier report this year saying that the musician had informed on individuals in connection with a 1989 petition calling for the freeing of then-dissident Vaclav Havel.