Romaszewski and his comrades became the most wanted people in Warsaw. Atter several fruitless attempts the police arrested some of them in July 1982, then the others on August 31 This trial will be, for the authorities, the opportunity to revenge itself on some exemplary militants.
On the day the trial opened, Radio sident mathematician Andrei Sakharov. Solidarnosc' restarted regular broadcasts
Access to the public gallery Military Tribunal in Warsaw, where this "public' trial is taking place, has been closed to journalists for lack of space'. Only the correspondents from the official Polish press agencies have been allowed in.
The two main accused, Zbigniew and Irena Romaszewski, are longtime activists for workers rights. After the
Arrested in August 1980, after the start of the strike in the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk, Romaszewski was freed by the agreement signed on August 31, 1980, between the strikers and the bureaucracy. He and his wife then participated in the formation of Solidarnose in the Warsaw region, where he became a member of the praesidium.
after several months of silence. It has called on the population of Warsaw to support the accused by gathering out side the seat of the Military Tribuna during the trial, and sending postcards to Romaszewski and his comrades in the prison where they are being held Zaklad Karny, Warszawa, ul. Rakowiecka Poland.
workers everywhere should and brutal crushing of the
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1976, they were among the first to set up a network of material and legal aid for the juridical red tape in which the bureau- comrades!
the persecuted workers and their families.
This network led, three months later,
Workto the establishment of the KOR, ers Defence Committee. Zbigniew Romas-
The Romaszewskis then organised the Intervention Commission for Solidarnose in the region. This was responsible for helping the factory sections cut through cracy tried to tie them up. congress Romaszewski was elected to the
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- Freedom for all political priso
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