Czech Regime Jails Priest and Others for Long Terms
(Rec 5.30 p.m.) PRAGUE, Dec 18. The Rev Father Pavel Hucko, a Greek Catholic Priest, has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in a Czech court. The charge against him was one of having used his rectory as a centre for members of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Army in Czechoslovakia. The Czech authorities claim that the trial has liquidated an organisation which, it states, has been called “'Banderovci.” The authorities said that a courier, named Jen ZilinsKy Banderovci was arrested in January of the year 1947, and that Banderovci and Rehor Buranic, ass’stant of Rev Father Hucko, were sentenced to imprisonment for life. They also stated that M. Sebastian Sabola. described as the chief functionary in Czechoslovakia of the Greek Catholic Order of Saint. Basilius, was sentenced, in absentia, to life imprisonment.
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Grey River Argus, 20 December 1948, Page 5
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