The World - News from May 24, 1985
The closed trial of three Solidarity activists charged with organizing an illegal strike opened in Warsaw, but the first session ended abruptly when the union activists refused to testify, Polish court sources said. Two of the defendants pleaded not guilty and the third refused to enter a plea, the official PAP news agency reported. The tightly controlled session ended an hour earlier than expected after Adam Michnik, Bogdan Lis and Wlasyslaw Frasyniuk refused to take the stand because the court would not allow them to consult with their lawyers for 10 minutes.
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