Nagode Trial

These included some former members of the Communist Party of Slovenia, but the majority were liberal democrats that were inclined toward western-style parliamentary democracy.

Those were Črtomir Nagode, Ljubo Sirc, Leon Kavčnik, Boris Furlan, Zoran Hribar, Angela Vode, Metod Kumelj, Pavla Hočevar, Svatopluk Zupan, Bogdan Stare, Metod Pirc, Vid Lajovic, Franjo Sirc, and Elizabeta Hribar.

The trial against the accused began on July 29,[4] and the proceedings were broadcast to the public via special loudspeakers on the streets.

[7][1] Nagode was shot on August 27, 1947[8][Note 1] and the death sentences against Furlan and Sirc were commuted to 20 years in prison.

In 1991 the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia overturned the conviction against Nagode and his fourteen co-defendants[1] on the grounds that it was based on false testimony and that it had been a corrupt trial against imaginary Western spies.