Former Polish minister's deputy joins hunger strike in prison

WARSAW - Poland's former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said he had started a hunger strike as a "political prisoner" on Wednesday, and was joined in the protest by his ex-deputy Maciej Wasik a day after both men, convicted of abuse of power, were sent to jail.

Their high-profile arrests, which took place inside the presidential palace in Warsaw on Tuesday while the president was at a different location in the city, have triggered raw emotion in Poland with protests carrying over to Wednesday. ---More...

BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years, since the fall of communism and the great victory of Poles over totalitarianism, we have political prisoners in Poland

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