Volume 30, Number 17 · November 10, 1983

In Investigation Prison

By Adam Michnik, Translated by Jerzy B. Warman

The historian Adam Michnik was one of the most active members of KORthe Workers' Defense Committeeand during 1980 and 1981 was an adviser to Solidarity in Warsaw. Of his many important publications, the best known are The Church, The Left, A Dialogue, and Letters from Bialoleka. He was arrested on December 13, 1981, the night of the military coup in Poland, and interned in Bialoleka Camp near Warsaw. In the fall of 1982 he was charged, together with some other members of KOR, with attempting to overthrow the state. He now awaits trial in Investigation Prison in Warsaw, where this interview with a Polish visitor took place.



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