The World - News from May 17, 1988

The spokesman of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity labor union was released from jail, nine days after being sentenced to six weeks on charges stemming from recent labor unrest, sources said. They said 23 people, six of them members of a steel mill strike committee, also had been released in amnesties negotiated by church mediators during two weeks of labor strikes that ended last Tuesday. But Solidarity spokesman Janusz Onyskiewicz’s case has been scheduled for a further court review in Warsaw on Thursday, the sources said. Onyskiewicz was sentenced for allegedly providing Western reporters with “false” information during the strikes deemed likely to “provoke trouble.”