Government drops treason appeal
Move sets back efforts to hold ex-communists responsible for actions
The two highest-ranking ex-Communist Party officials ever to be prosecuted for acts they committed while in office will escape the seven-year effort to convict them of treason.
The decision to abandon the prosecution of Milous Jakes and Jozef Lenart is the latest in a series of setbacks in the legal campaign to bring communist-era leaders to account for their actions during Czechoslovakia's years as a Soviet satellite.
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