Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:05:44 +0200https://english.radio.cz/president-pardons-man-sentenced-six-years-shooting-8564788© 2026 Radio Prague International On Wednesday, President Václav Klaus issued an official pardon to a man serving a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder. The case of Karel Bašta, who shot at thieves escaping his property, seriously injuring one of them, was recently addressed by the Supreme Court, which upheld the stiff sentence by ruling that in similar cases killing a thief in defence of property needed to be assessed as murder – not manslaughter. By granting a pardon, the president has brought the case to a surprising conclusion, one that the convicted man himself could not have expected. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/basta_karel1.jpg?timestamp=1591250700 https://english.radio.cz/president-pardons-man-sentenced-six-years-shooting-8564788 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9