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Poland applies to UK authorities for repatriation of vegetative patient

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A Polish deputy justice minister said on Saturday he had requested from Britain's Lord Chancellor the return to Poland of a Polish citizen in a vegetative state after a Warsaw court gave the procedure a green light on Friday.

Polish clinic offers to take Pole ‘in a coma’ after UK court rules he should be left to die

The man, who has not been named, has been in a coma in a Plymouth hospital since November 6 after suffering a cardiac arrest. The heart attack lasted for 45 minutes and left him with what doctors have described as severe and permanent brain damage.

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Cell where Witold Pilecki was held before being executed opens to the public

The opening of the 2x3.5-metre cell where Pilecki awaited execution at the hands of the Soviet-installed communists coincides with the 75th anniversary of his execution at the prison in 1948.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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