At least five conscientious objectors were imprisoned for refusing to perform military service and were prisoners of conscience. Two people were sentenced to death. In September the National Assembly began debating seven draft constitutions submitted for consideration by various political parties, the President, the Senate and the trade union Solidarity. During the year suspected perpetrators of human rights violations committed after the imposition of martial law in 1981 were brought to trial. In April a trial resumed in Wroc¬aw of three former police officers accused of killing three Solidarity supporters in Lublin in August 1982 (see Amnesty International Report 1983). In June six former security service agents went on trial for the kidnapping and torture of Janusz Krupski in 1983. In September Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Interior Minister, went on trial for allowing riot police squads to use firearms, causing the death of nine miners at Wujek colliery, near Katowice, in December 1981 (see Amnesty International Report 1982). Five conscientious objectors to military service were conditionally released after serving more than half their sentences, which were imposed in 1993 (see Amnesty International Report 1994). Dariusz Matczak was released in March, Tomasz Jarosik in May and Robert Cygan was released in June. One person was sentenced to death for murder in June and another in November. Amnesty International called for the release of prisoners of conscience. The organization also called on the authorities to commute the death sentences and to abolish the death penalty.

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