6 Poles Begin Fast to Protest Arrests
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PODKOWA LESNA, Poland — Six women on Sunday began what they said will be a weeklong hunger strike at a Roman Catholic church to protest the jailing of at least half a dozen members of an unofficial Polish peace group.
The six women, who came from Warsaw, Gdansk and Wroclaw, announced their water-only fast before about 500 worshipers attending a Sunday morning Mass at St. Christopher’s Church in the town of Podkowa Lesna, 12 miles southwest of Warsaw.
The women said in a statement they were protesting the arrests last month of two organizers of the independent Freedom and Peace Movement, Jacek Czaputowicz and Piotr Niemczyk. They are under investigation for allegedly belonging to an illegal organization.
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