Former human rights commission deputy sentenced to prison term

Self-Defense (Samoobrona) deputy Danuta Hojarska has been convicted by the Elblag regional court of falsifying a pass to see her son in jail, and sent enced to one year's imprisonment, suspended for three years. The sentencing took place in the presence of Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper and another prominent party activist, Henryk Dzido, who acted as Hojarska's attorney and filed several new motions with the court asking for additional witnesses to be questioned. However, the court rejected all those motions. Hojarska used to be the deputy head of the Sejm's Justice and Human Rights Commission. In April she reported her husband, with whom she was jointly charged with embe zzlement in another case, missing. A month ago she identified a body recove red from a river as that of her husband. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) T.J.