Mateusz Piskorski, leader of party “Change", detained in Poland

Mateusz Piskorski, leader of party “Change", detained in Poland

Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 08:59

Poland's Internal Security Agency detained the leaders of the party "Change" which stood for the country's withdrawal from NATO and the EU, criticised Ukraine for its actions against Donbass and recognised the reunification of the Crimea with Russia. The detainees are accused of spying for Russia, reports The Politnavigator.

The security forces raided the homes of party leaders Mateusz Piskorski, Tomasz Jankowski and Conrad Recas, seizing their computer hard drives and documents found.

The head of the “Change”, an ex-MP of the Polish Sejm, Piskorski was arrested. Other representatives of the political forces might end up behind bars as well.

The press-service of the party issued a statement.

‘We consider such acts as a form of political repression and an attempt to intimidate the forces that have a vision of Polish policy - foreign, domestic, social and economic - different from that approved by the authorities of Poland,’says the statement.

The authors of the statement emphasise that the "Change" was a legal party, while the actions of the security forces were ‘a gross violation of the principles of legality, which is unacceptable in a democratic country which declares the respect for freedom of speech’.

DONi News Agency

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