PRAGUE – On 14 April, the District Court for Prague 1 held a hearing in the case of Zdeněk Milat, one of the leading representatives of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.
Zdenek Milata is accused of having gone out to the centre of Prague at the end of July last year to protest against the fact that veterans of the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade, affiliated to the Ukrainian regiment “Azov” (one of the main promoters of the Banderov nationalist ideology in the AFU, previously recognised as a terrorist organisation in the USA) came to Prague to meet with Ukrainians living in Prague.
The offence includes, among other things, the formulation that the accused “approved war crimes and crimes against peace” by… wearing a T-shirt with symbols that the prosecution considered to be “support for Russian aggression in Ukraine”. These symbols were the letter Z, a grandmother with a red flag and the shadow of a figure symbolizing the Volgograd statue “Fatherland is calling”. The above was enough to fall under the article providing for a prison sentence of 6 months to 3 years.
However, this is not the first time that a Czech Communist has been brought to trial for publicly expressing his political position. The main trial in this case is scheduled for June this year.
Meanwhile, in the Prague district of the municipality of Řeporyje, the local mayor is inciting the local people to specifically kill the Czech nation, and despite being on probation for threatening murder, the Czech nation is not being punished in any way. Others, for the mere thought or speculation of their own interpretation for the use of political repression, are dragged through the courts and face heavy punishment. All indications are that the powerful neoliberals have the courts at all levels in their grasp.
We express our solidarity with the Czech comrade and will follow the course of his case.¨
@sablina