Slovakia - Country Report - Slovakia
Slovakia - Country Report - Slovakia

Author(s): Ľubomír Morbacher
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1990s, on the basis of Act No. 119/1990 of the Collection of Laws (Coll.), on judicial rehabilitation, courts in Czechoslovakia rehabilitated more than 220,000 people who had been convicted in political trials in the years 1948–1989. It is an undisputed fact that the Czechoslovak Republic, where the Communist Party seized power in February 1948, executed hundreds of innocent people. Hundreds more were killed at the border attempting to escape to the West, and it subjected hundreds of thousands of its own citizens to extra-judicial persecution in addition to the most severe deprivation of personal liberty, which has already been mentioned.

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