Senate proposes Masin brothers for state honours for fourth time

The Czech Senate has proposed that state honours be granted to the resistance group of the Masin brothers, who fought their way out of Communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s. It is the fourth time the Senate has nominated the Masin group. Left-of-centre representatives were against. The group this year was not nominated for the Order of the White Lion. In total the Senate nominated 25 people, among them renowned Czech author Arnost Lustig, historian Zdenek Mahler, and the late Jan Langos, the first head of Slovakia's Institute of National Memory, who died last year in a car accident.