Trial - court - disorderly conduct - wrongly accused

Communist government accused this young man and 7 other citizens with improper behaviour during state holiday May Day and senteced them to prison terms from three months to 7 years. However, the only offence they might have commited was to honor the romantic Czech poet Karel Hynek Macha (author of May Day poem) at his memorial at Petrin. Prague, Czechoslovakia 1963. (CTK Photo / Karel Melvald)

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Behaviour Commited Conduct Disorderly However Hynek Improper Karel Macha Melvald Might Offence Petrin Poem Senteced Terms Wrongly

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