Růžena Krásná is a Czechoslovakian liberal politician and human rights advocate, who was a political prisoner under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia for eleven years.
Career
Arrested in 1949 by the Soviet occupiers, she was sentenced to death in a public show trial together with Member of Parliament Emil Weiland. However, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and she remained a political prisoner until 1960. Václav Benda Award (2010).
Politics
After World World War II, she became regional secretary of the Czechoslovakian National Social Party in Liberec. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she co-founded the Czechoslovak Confederation of Political Prisoners. In 1990, she was elected Chairman of the National Social Party – the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party.
She is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.