The World - News from May 10, 1988
The State Department said an autopsy conducted by two American pathologists showed that human rights activist Pavel Wonka, 35, who died in a Czechoslovak prison April 26, was not tortured but that harsh treatment may have contributed to his death. Drs. Robert Lawrence of Harvard University and Robert Kirschner of the University of Chicago, both members of Physicians for Human Rights, were permitted by Czechoslovak authorities to conduct the autopsy. They concluded that the probable cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.
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