Justice for victims killed during Communism

Senator Jiří Šesták cordially invites to a press conference which will be held under the auspices of Miluše Horská, Vice-President of the Senate on Friday, 26 August 2016 at 10.00 in the Zaháňský Salon of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic, address Valdštejnské nám. 4, 118 01 Praha 1 (entrance via Reception C1).

The topic of the press conference will be a criminal complaint which has been filed by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience with the German Federal Prosecutor General. It is directed against 67 persons of Czech and Slovak nationality covering the entire chain of command who are responsible for 5 cases of killings of German victims at the Iron Curtain which separated former Czechoslovakia from Western Europe.
On the previous day, 25 August 2016, a press conference on the same topic will be held in Berlin, Germany.

Speakers at the press conference will be: Senator Jiří Šesták, Vice-President of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions, Luděk Navara, member of the civic association Paměť, Dr. Neela Winkelmann, Managing Director of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, Konrad Menz, attorney-at-law from the law office Derra, Meyer & Partner from Berlin and the mother of Hartmut Tautz, an eighteen-year-old refugee who was assaulted by so-called independently attacking dogs of the Czechoslovak border guards and died on 9 August 1986, 30 years ago.

Languages will be Czech and German.

For accreditation, kindly register at www.memoryandconscience.eu/tiskovakonference

Thank you.

Dr. Neela Winkelmann
Managing Director
Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Londýnská 43
120 00 Praha 2
Czech Republic
tel.: +420-222 561 053
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