Students expelled from Czech universities under Communism to be compensated

The government has agreed to compensate students thrown out of Czech universities for political reasons following the Communist coup in 1948. Ministers are still to work out the sum that those affected will receive, though Education Minister Ondřej Liška has said the award will be ‘symbolic’. It is not yet clear either who will be eligible for compensation. Minister Cyril Svoboda has proposed that compensation be handed to those expelled between 1948 and 1956, while other MPs want all those affected until the fall of communism in 1989 to receive financial remuneration. Education Minister Ondřej Liška said that he would draft a directive by the end of the year.