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Poland ex-minister on hunger strike as row between PM and president deepens

A protester holds a sign with effigies of detained former ministers Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik near the Grochow police station in Warsaw, Poland [Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

Poland’s former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski says he has started a hunger strike as a “political prisoner”, a day after he was arrested and sent to prison on abuse of power charges.

Kaminski made the announcement on Wednesday, following his arrest along with his deputy, Maciej Wasik, inside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.

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