Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:26:50 +0200https://english.radio.cz/blood-libel-czech-lawyer-specialising-judicial-rehabilitation-takes-hilsner-8687899© 2026 Radio Prague International In the early summer of 1899, just as the infamous Dreyfus Affair was reaching its climax in France, another case now emblematic of anti-Semitism and injustice enveloped the Czech lands and wider Austrian Empire. Leopold Hilsner, a simple-minded Jewish peddler and vagrant in his early twenties, stood accused of killing a teenage seamstress in an implied act of “blood libel”, the ritual murder of a Christian. Now, more than 120 years later, a Czech lawyer specialising in defending and “rehabilitating” unjustly persecuted people is pushing to reopen the case. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/hilsneriada_antisemitska_kresba.jpg?timestamp=1678456418 https://english.radio.cz/blood-libel-czech-lawyer-specialising-judicial-rehabilitation-takes-hilsner-8687899 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9