Dissident’s Killer Sentenced After 25 Years

30th May 2008

Grzegorz Przemyk was a promising young poet before his death.

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A Warsaw court on Tuesday sentenced a communist-era policeman to four years in prison for the 1983 killing of a young dissident, overturning a history of four acquittals in the same case over the years. Ireneusz K., a former member of communist Poland's infamous ZOMO riot police units, was found guilty of the fatal beating of 19-year-old Grzegorz Przemyk, the son of dissident poet Barbara Sadowska and a promising talent in his own rights. The case became a symbol of resistance, and his funeral turned into a massive demonstration against the communist authorities.

A Warsaw court on Tuesday sentenced a communist-era policeman to four years in prison for the 1983 killing of a young dissident, ov ...

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