Ethnic Poles Freed From Belarus Prison Are In Poland, Warsaw Says
udf.byIrena Biernacka was arrested in March and is now reportedly free in Poland Three members of the ethnic Polish minority in Belarus who had been jailed for their political activism are now free and in Poland, authorities in Warsaw said on June 2. The activists — identified as Irena Biernacka, Maria Tiszkowska, and Anna Paniszewa — were arrested in March as part of the Belarusian authorities’ crackdown on ethnic Poles who opposed the authoritarian regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
The Polish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “as a result of efforts by Polish diplomatic and consular services,” the activists arrived in Poland on May 25.