Police accuse former StB officers of bullying young student

The police have accused three former State Security (StB) officers of causing the expulsion of a student from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and his internment in a psychiatric hospital at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, Chief Commissioner Iveta Kořínková reported on the police website on Friday. Criminal investigators are currently prosecuting them for the crime of abuse of official authority, which carries a penalty of up to ten years in prison if convicted.

According to the police, the trio targeted the twenty-year-old young man who was a signatory of Charter 77 and a collaborator of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Persecuted. They opened a file against him and because of their measures, the university expelled the young man from his studies between 1978 and 1981. According to Ms. Kořínková, the young man ended up in a psychiatric hospital.