One day after being detained and imprisoned on charges of abusing authority, Mariusz Kaminski, the former interior minister of Poland, claims to have initiated a hunger strike in his capacity as a “political prisoner.”
On Wednesday, Kaminski made the declaration after being taken into custody inside the Warsaw Presidential Palace along with his deputy, Maciej Wasik.
At a press conference in front of the prime minister’s office, Kaminski made the declaration, which was read by his former deputy Blazej Pobozy, “I declare that I treat my conviction… as an act of political revenge.”
The nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party’s previous prime minister, Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform party, has vowed to reverse their policies and punish anyone found guilty of misconduct.
