Právo: Brožová-Polednová prison sentence reduced to three years

The Supreme Court in Prague has halved the six-year prison sentence of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová based on presidential amnesties given in previous years, the daily Právo has reported. The decision partially confirms the verdict of a district court earlier in the month, which ruled that the former communist prosecutor must be absolved of her sentence in full. Právo writes that she will now have the right to request parole next March, after a third of her sentence has been served; the court has yet to make any statement on the ruling. 88-year-old Ludmila Brožová-Polednová was imprisoned in 2009 for the judicial murder of Milada Horáková, a politician executed by the communist regime in 1950 after a show trial. She is the oldest prisoner in the Czech Republic.