Monika Wiench: Let's get them flowers

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date:13 January 2024 Editor: Editorial

Photo: 11.01.2024

Let's get them flowers.

When after arrests and departure in an unknown direction in December 1981

friends from our Solidarity I yet managed to find them and go from Warsaw to

Silesia, I entered Radoch Prison in Sosnowiec. That's where they kept them, separated from them.

the planet as "enemies of socialism", as dangerous criminals, capable of "overturning"

Power of the system". I remember this visit to this day, all minute of it - grey, depressed faces

The captured Solidarity activists, the guard's shoe, the uncertainty of tomorrow. What's next with

with us, with Poland?

I brought any "seeing" things for the first time - any clean underwear,

Some fruit, a part of favourite cake, as much as fit in a woman's purse.

I remember there were no words, due to the fact that everything seemed so unreal, not about us,

And even those who watched us, there's no telling why. At the end of the conversation

I heard a conviction addressed to me that I inactive remember today: ...Thank you for these things,

I just want you'd brought a bunch of white and red flowers. I could usage me and

Girls in a cell."

I was able to get out of there beautiful quickly, as far distant from those hated grays.

uniformed servants of Jaruzelski, dark corridors, from the jaw of prison keys.

We could have escaped, the ones they hadn't caught yet. Our friends, political prisoners

They must have stayed there due to the fact that the tyrant and his bandit group decided so.

Today, erstwhile I look at the faces of 2 women in Television, the wives of the Members of Mary

Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik, those memories from the martial law of December 1981

They come back with all their power, due to the fact that today's dominant feeling is sadness, compassion and

worry about tomorrow. And again, the thought comes back, what can we do for them?

They must feel that we are with them to endure, just as our friends with that

December. possibly we should bring them flowers - necessarily white and red!

Monika Wiench, Sydney

From Drafting

In: President.pl

11 January 2024

President Andrzej Duda decided to initiate a pardon procedure against Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik at the request of his wives – Barbara Kamińska and Romualda Wąsik. He besides requests the lawyer General to suspend both politicians from executing penalties.

Today the president met with the wives of Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik – Barbara Kamińska and Romualda Wąsik.

– The ladies asked me to release their husbands. Yesterday I said that I would make all effort to return my freedom to the masters as shortly as possible, to be free people, not political prisoners in the free Republic, due to the fact that it is simply a disgrace to her dignity and besides to our global position – the president later said.

I so decided at the request of the ladies to initiate a pardon procedure. I want this procedure to be carried out absolutely according to all constitutional and statutory standards, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, besides in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure," the president announced. "This is simply a procedure that is initiated in presidential mode," he added.

The motion goes to the lawyer General right now. This is the anticipation provided for in Article 568 of the Code of Criminal Procedure that the lawyer General suspends the execution of the sentence, so that the lawyer General – in short – will release the individual inmate for the duration of the pardon procedure. That is what I besides ask the lawyer General," he announced.

The president noted that he was asking the lawyer General to immediately release Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik. “Because I firmly believe that this will end the problem of putting them in jail, and on the another hand, the hunger strike,” he said. "I believe that it will besides calm the unrest that has arisen in our country," he added.

Once again I appeal to everyone for peace, including those who will participate in the demonstrations, demanding the release of political prisoners, demanding actual democracy in Poland, respect for the Constitution and laws. I appeal to them for peace – he stressed.

As he pointed out, as president of the Republic of Poland, he feels that he must do everything possible to prevent escalation of these events. Therefore, the decision to initiate the pardon procedure and the request to the lawyer General. "I hope that the lawyer General Adam Bodnar, until late the Ombudsman, will decision rapidly on this proposal and will make decisions in accordance with the interests of the Polish Republic, which is best understood," said Andrzej Duda.

The president reiterated that he pardoned Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik in 2015 and did it in a textbook way.

I want to be clear and clear: the act of grace which I issued as president was issued in accordance with the Constitution, completely in accordance with the applicable standards, is effective and in my individual opinion gentlemen are inactive Members, legally, completely in accordance with Polish law," said Andrzej Duda.

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