Courtroom disruption

Court guards lead former lawmaker and anti-communist activist Adam Slomka from a courtroom in <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100602011402" title="Warsaw (Poland)" href="/topic/intl/poland/warsaw-%28poland%29-PLGEO100100602011402.topic">Warsaw</a> where his unruly behavior delayed the reading of a verdict on communist-era interior minister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, who was handed a two-year suspended prison term for his role in implementing the 1981 martial law in Poland. Three decades after the brutal 1981 crackdown on Poland's freedom-seeking Solidarity movement, a Warsaw court found one of its masterminds guilty of "communist crimes" but acquitted another Thursday. The principal suspect originally accused in the trial, Poland's communist-era dictator General <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST001017" title="Wojciech Jaruzelski" href="/topic/arts-culture/wojciech-jaruzelski-PEHST001017.topic">Wojciech Jaruzelski</a>, now 88 and suffering from <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEDAI0000010" title="Cancer" href="/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/cancer-HEDAI0000010.topic">cancer</a>, was earlier exempted from it on medical grounds.

( Getty Images / January 12, 2012 )

Court guards lead former lawmaker and anti-communist activist Adam Slomka from a courtroom in Warsaw where his unruly behavior delayed the reading of a verdict on communist-era interior minister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, who was handed a two-year suspended prison term for his role in implementing the 1981 martial law in Poland. Three decades after the brutal 1981 crackdown on Poland's freedom-seeking Solidarity movement, a Warsaw court found one of its masterminds guilty of "communist crimes" but acquitted another Thursday. The principal suspect originally accused in the trial, Poland's communist-era dictator General Wojciech Jaruzelski, now 88 and suffering from cancer, was earlier exempted from it on medical grounds.

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