2 convicted ex-Polish ministers held

Police in Poland have arrested two former ministers in the latest major confrontation between the new, pro-European Union coalition that runs the country and the former administration of the right-wing Law and Justice party, or PiS.

Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik, the country's former interior minister and deputy interior minister, were taken into custody at the presidential palace in Warsaw on Tuesday, after failing to hand themselves to the authorities following their convictions last month for abuse of power over crimes committed in 2007, when the men were in charge of a government anti-corruption office.

Kaminski is starting a hunger strike, he said in a statement on Wednesday.