Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Poland [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series). ; FCO28-004922. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FCO28: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series). ; FCO28-004922

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1976-1982: Module 4
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of documents concerning dissidents in Poland. Subjects discussed in the file include the arrest and trial of dissidents in Poland under martial law -- the trial of leaders of the Polish opposition groups, the Confederation of Independent Poland, and the Workers' Defence Committee -- the detainment of academics within Poland -- conditions at internment camps in Poland -- the release of political prisoners by the Polish government -- and protests against martial law in Poland. Other subjects discussed in the file include hunger strikes carried out by interned members of the Polish Solidarity movement -- industrial accidents in Poland -- the British response to human rights violations in Poland -- Polish documentation procedures for consignments of humanitarian aid -- Polish criticism of Western interference -- and the case of Roger Noël, a Belgian citizen arrested for attempting to smuggle a radio transmitter into Poland. Documents in the file include British Foreign Office reports on dissident activity in Poland.

Notes

• File date: 1982.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2015.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module IV.

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