President initiates process to pardon jailed farmer's union leader Zagorny

The leader of the farmers' protesters may soon be out of prison. President Aleksander Kwasniewski has launched the procedure to pardon him. A petition to the President concerning Zagorny has been signed by 200,000 farmers. Yesterday, Zagorny also asked the Justice Minister Lech Kaczynski to give him temporary leave until the procedure of pardoning is finished. Kaczynski said that, at his request, the state prosecutor had already asked the jury to end Zagony's imprisonment due to his ill health. Zagorny had been sentenced to 15 months in prison for destroying 12 rail cars of wheat. (Zycie, page 3)