Teacher who cast doubt on Russian war crimes acquitted second time

The Prague 6 municipal court has once again acquitted the primary school teacher Martina Bednářová of denying war crimes and genocide in a lesson in early April 2022, a few weeks after Russia launched its war on Ukraine. The court ruled, as it had previously last June, that she could not be found guilty of a criminal act for a personal opinion. The judge said that although the teacher's statements were false, misleading, and highly controversial, they did not have consequences for the pupils' mental health. The public prosecutor immediately appealed against the decision.