Stanislav Doubek

“The session in the Regional Court in Hradec Králové was really fantastic. We arrived there and suddenly there was a blackout and there was no electricity in the entire court building. When they finally invited us to the courtroom, in two minutes they told us that everything was all right about the previous sentence that we had gotten in Semily, and they sent us home.”

“The conditions in the prison… In Valdice, they did not even have any cells prepared for the prisoners from the 1st reformative group who were supposed to share prison cells with four or six inmates. There was a large hall instead where they placed all one hundred and fifty of us. One hundred and fifty people on one floor in three-tiered bunk beds, it was bloody cold there because we got admitted in December and in January the temperature dropped to twenty degrees below zero, the windows were broken… well, to put it shortly, it was not warm inside. There were four toilets and four water taps.”