K.O.R. leader freed

Press, 15 August 1984, Page 10

K.O.R. leader freed

NZPA-Reuter Warsaw The last imprisoned leader of the Polish dissident group K.O.R. (Workers’ Defence Committee), Henryk Wujec, was released yesterday under a Government amnesty, his relatives said. Wujec, a 43-year-old physicist who had been in prison since the imposition of martial law in December 1981, was freed from Warsaw’s Rakowiecka Jail just before midday (local time), they said. Three other K.O.R. leaders, Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik and Zbigniew Romaszewski, have been released in the last nine days. All four stood trial in a military court last month on charges of plotting to overthrow the State, but the trial was abandoned because of the amnesty. Seven leaders of the outlawed Solidarity labour movement who were in prison under investigation on similar charges to the K.O.R. activists have also all been freed. Wujec, an activist in Poland’s Catholic intelligentsia clubs in the 19605, joined K.O.R. in 1977 and was repeatedly detained by the police. In August, 1980, he helped organise sympathy protests in Warsaw’s working-class Ursus area with the strikes on the Baltic coast that led to Solidarity’s formation.