Supreme state attorney asks president to pardon former Communist prosecutor

The Supreme State Attorney, Renata Vesecká, has asked the president to pardon the former Communist-era prosecutor Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, for her role in the Stalinist 1950s show trial which saw democratic politician Milada Horáková sentenced to death. Two weeks ago, in appeals proceedings, Mrs Brožová-Polednová was sentenced to six years in prison for participation in judicial murder. The Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecká told the Czech daily Právo that she had asked for the presidential pardon for the defendant for humanitarian reasons: Mrs Brožová-Polednová is 86 and in poor health.