Poland’s foreign ministry spokesman Łukasz Jasina said the scientist “is safe and sound with his family” after he was seized along with others while taking soil samples in a restricted area where rocket tests were being held.
A US Navy veteran has arrived in Poland after spending months in captivity in Russia, the CNN broadcaster has reported.
Italian police have detained a 25-year-old homeless Polish man on charges of injuring a young female tourist from Israel at Rome's main railway station, Roma Termini, on New Year's Eve.
Aleksander Lukashenko, the Belarusian strongman, has claimed that it was thanks to his decision that a Polish minority leader was released in March after a year spent in prison and moved to house arrest.
Microbiologist Maciej Walczak (R) from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was seized along with several others including a British diplomat while taking soil samples in what authorities describe as a restricted area where rocket tests were being held.
Belarusian authorities have detained the deputy head of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB), Renata Dziemiańczuk, a Belarusian website has reported.
In an attempt to dispel stereotypes that women in correction facilities are ‘ugly and degenerate’ the nine girls from the Juvenile Detention Centre in Zawiercie in southern Poland posed for a stunning set of photos as stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe.
Poland’s deputy foreign minister has described as “totally unacceptable” a decision by the Belarusian authorities to prolong the detention of a leading member of Belarus’s Polish community for another three months.
The head of the US embassy in Warsaw has expressed his concern over the detention of Andrzej Poczobut, a representative of the Union of Poles in Belarus, and said the embassy will hold Belarus to account.
Anna Paniszewa, the director of the Polish School in the Belarusian city of Brest, on the Polish border, was detained on Friday after returning to Belarus from Poland.
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