The World - News from April 26, 1989
One of four Polish secret police agents convicted in the 1984 kidnaping, torture and murder of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko has been freed from prison, government spokesman Zbyslaw Rykowski said. He had said earlier that Waldemar Chmielewski would be released. The priest had drawn thousands to monthly sermons in Warsaw in which he urged that the banned union be re-legalized. After Popieluszko’s death, Solidarity declared him patron of the union, which was restored to legal status this month. Chmielewski had been sentenced to 14 years in jail; the others received 15- or 25-year terms. The sentences have been reduced twice in three years.
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