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Former Polish interior minister Mariusz Kamiński, who was arrested and imprisoned late Tuesday on abuse of power charges, announced he was going on hunger strike. Kamiński, a member of the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, wrote on the social media platform X on Wednesday that his conviction and two-year prison sentence was political retaliation. On Tuesday – when Kamiński and his former state secretary Maciej Wąsik had been due to begin their sentences and as police began enforcing a warrant for their arrest – right-wing President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, invited the duo to hi…

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