Mariusz Kaminski, a former head of Poland's Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) and a politician from the ex-governing party, Law and Justice, has said he’ll go on hunger strike after he was detained last night by police, The First News reports.
Kaminski, along with Maciej Wasik, his former deputy, are being held in detention after being found guilty of abusing their power while in office.
But Kaminski has claimed his imprisonment is an act of political revenge by the new Polish government.
Blazej Pobozy, who on Tuesday was nominated as an advisor to President Andrzej Duda, said that Kaminski, just before the "unlawful detention", made the following statement to the Minister of Justice.
"I declare that I treat my conviction for fighting corruption and taking illegal actions to deprive me of my parliamentary mandate as an act of political revenge. Therefore, as a political prisoner, I am starting a hunger protest from the first day of my imprisonment. I demand the immediate release from prison of all members of the former management of the CBA covered by the act of pardon issued in 2015 by the President of the Republic of Poland."
On Tuesday evening, police detained the former head of the CBA and former Minister of Internal Affairs and his former deputy who were inside the Presidential Palace at the time.
