Ludmila Brožová-Polednová

Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
Born(1921-12-20)20 December 1921
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died15 January 2015(2015-01-15) (aged 93)
Prague, Czech Republic
OccupationState prosecutor

Ludmila Brožová-Polednová (born Ludmila Biedermannová; 20 December 1921 – 15 January 2015) was a Czech state prosecutor (public procurator) sentenced at age 86 in September 2008 to six years' imprisonment for her participation in the show trials of Milada Horáková and others in 1950, which led to at least four executions.

Brožová-Polednová was the only person sentenced in association with the political purges and repressions conducted by the ruling Communist Party in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s.

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