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No. 11 (2018)

ISSN:
1899-1254

Section: Dokumenty

Proces działaczy NSZZ „Solidarność” z Tomaszowa Mazowieckiego jako przykład represyjnej działalności sądownictwa powszechnego w okresie stanu wojennego

Krzysztof Kolasa

Oddział Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w Łodzi

Sebastian Pilarski

Oddział Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w Łodzi

Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 11 (2018), pages: 295–364

Publication date: 2023-04-05

Abstract

During the period of martial law, the judicial administration became – apart from the state security apparatus – one of the main tools used by the communist authorities to combat NSZZ “Solidarność”. The process discussed in the article was a consequence of the Security Service’s disclosure of a group of trade unionists involved in printing and distributing illegal materials in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. Two months later, the Military Garrison Prosecutor’s Office in Łódź, on the basis of the Decree of 12 December 1981 on martial law, opened an investigation into an alleged continuation of the suspended union, spreading “false messages” that could cause “public anxiety or riots” and editing, printing and distributing materials in a second print. A total of 12 people were arrested, 53 witnesses were questioned, and 33 searches were carried out. The trials before the Provincial Court in Piotrków Trybunalski took place on 17–19, 26 and 28 May 1982. Four persons were sentenced to two years in prison. A conditional suspension of the sentence was applied by the court in relation to 6 people. In relation to one person, the proceedings were discontinued, and one person was acquitted of the charges. On 12 January 1983, the Supreme Court suspended execution of the imprisonment sentences for four years, whilst the judgment of the Piotrków court was upheld in relation to the other defendants. After the collapse of the communist system in Poland it became possible to acquit the convicts, which the Supreme Court effected on 27 May 1993.


                            View No. 11 (2018)

No. 11 (2018)

ISSN:
1899-1254

Data publikacji:
2018-10-05

Dział: Dokumenty