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.
[1] 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.
In summer 1950, Biedermannová participated as a "workers' prosecutor" in a show trial against a group accused of conspiracy against the state [cs], which was allegedly led by Milada Horáková,[3] an opposition politician and former prisoner of Nazi concentration camps.
[citation needed] As the sole surviving participant of the trial, Brožová-Polednová was charged and tried in 2008 after the fall of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
[6] She was released by an amnesty granted by President Václav Klaus in December 2010, due to her age and health.