Miroslav Jirasek: Return to Hell

Continue reading from the memoir of a former political prisoner. JUDr. Miroslav Jirásek - as an employee of the Office of the President of the Republic Dr. E. Beneš was included in the "Hrad Group" by the then functionaries of the ruling Communist Party and the all-powerful State Security. At his trial, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crimes of treason, espionage and endangering state security. He summarized his experiences from almost ten years in a number of prisons and camps in the 1950s, first in his book From the Diary of a Traitor (1990), which he followed up with Return to Hell (1999).