On trial accused of forming illegal political party . Prague , Czechoslovakia . Fourteen of these men wearing armbands to identify them as prisoners received Gaol sentences from four months to seven years , and four of them acquitted , on charges of forming an illegal Social Democratic organisation directed from abroad by emigre Blazej Vilim , former Secretary General of the SD Party , at a three day trial before the State Court here , specially set up to try cases under the new ' Law for the Defence of the Peoples Democratic Republic ' . 17 January 1949