Milada Horáková

Milada Horáková (born Králová, 25 December 1901 – 27 June 1950) was a Czech politician and a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then against the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She was focused on preserving democratic institutions and women's rights.

She was convicted by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia on fabricated charges of conspiracy and treason and executed at Pankrác Prison in Prague in a judicial murder using a primitive variant of capital punishment by hanging with slow strangling; she was strangled for more than 13 minutes. She was cremated but her remains were never found.

Her conviction was annulled in 1968. She underwent political rehabilitation in the 1990s and posthumously received the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1st Class) and Order of the White Double Cross (1st Class). In September 2008, Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, the sole surviving member of the team that led to the execution of Horáková, was sentenced to prison.