“As a political prisoner, I am starting a hunger strike from the first day of my imprisonment,” Mariusz Kaminski said in a statement. The letter addressed to the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar was read at a press conference on Wednesday by Blazej Poboży, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration and currently an advisor to President Andrzej Duda.
Equally, Maciej Wąsik, another of the convicted and imprisoned Law and Justice politicians, started a hunger strike. His wife stated this in an interview given to “Republica” TV station.
The ombudsman is on hunger strike
Meanwhile, the Ombudsman notes that according to the provisions of the Executive Criminal Code, prisoners in Poland do not have the right to refuse food. Prof. Marcin Viacek also emphasized that if such a situation occurs, there are regulations that provide grounds for force-feeding prisoners.
– If there is such a protest, the result is that such a person, a prisoner, will be transferred to medical care and diagnostic procedures. Then such a person remains under medical supervision – he said on Polsat News.
– If the doctor determines that the vocal protest threatens the life of a person, it is possible to submit a case to the court and the court may decide on forced feeding – added the ombudsman, stating that this happens “as a last resort, based on Court decision”.
Detention of MPs
Tuesday evening The police arrested him Former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration and former head of CBA Mariusz Kaminski and his former deputy Maciej Wąsik in the presidential palace.
At that time, President Andrzej Duda was in the Belvedere Palace, where he met with representatives of the Belarusian society and the leader of the Belarusian opposition Sviatlana Tsykhanuskaia.
PiS politicians were taken from the presidential palace first to the police station on Grenadierov Street, and then to the Warsaw-Grokhov Detention Center.
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