Ludmila Brožová-Polednová asks to have her sentence suspended

Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former Czech communist prosecutor who is serving a six year jail sentence for helping to send democratic politician Milada Horáková to the gallows in a show trial in the Stalinist 10950s, has asked for her sentence to be suspended for health reasons. Brožová-Polednová entered prison in early September of last year after doctors said her state of health enabled her to serve her sentence, but she claims that the jail house in Svetlá nad Sázavou is not able to give her proper medical care. Brožová-Polednová suffers from diabetes and has impaired sight. At 87 she is the country’s oldest prisoner. Late last year President Václav Klaus denied a request from Renata Vesecká, the country’s Supreme State Attorney to pardon Mrs Brožová-Polednová on the grounds of her advanced age.