NO TO THE CRIMINALISATION OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN THE EU! SOLIDARITY WITH JOSEF SKÁLA AND THE PRAGUE SCHOLARS INDICTED FOR RAISING DOUBTS ABOUT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KATYN MASSACRE!

Autor: Parlamentní listy | 20. 1. 2023

History in court. On 1 February, the trial against Josef Skála and the Prague scholars indicted for raising doubts about those responsible for the Katyn massacre will take place in Prague.

On 31 October 2022, Tomáš Hübner, single judge of the Prague 7 District Court, sentenced Josef Skála, a well-known Marxist intellectual and former vice-president of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), together with Vladimír Kapal, and Juraj Václavík, all three indicted, to eight months’ imprisonment, under Article 405 of the Criminal Code of the Czech Republic, for having challenged the version attributing the Katyn massacre (the killing of thousands of Polish prisoners of war on the territory of the USSR, occupied by the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1941) to the Soviet leadership.

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