Leila Naimi: Wozniak

Ekaterina Lemondjava Dept: A Georgian and an Iranian woman have complained to Polish media of prison-like conditions, intrusive searches, humiliating treatment by armed guards, inadequate medical care and lack of education for children. They said immigrants were being held for months and that 27 Georgian and Armenian inmates recently held a hunger strike in protest. Letters from Ekaterina Lemondjava, from Georgia, and Leila Naimi from Iran, were recently published by Gazeta Wyborcza daily, according to CTV. Wozniak said no complaints of irregularities or of shameful treatment have been reported by various watchdog groups, which have been regularly visiting the centres. However, a preliminary visit last week in Lesznowola, near Warsaw, found substandard living conditions in a centre that needs to be renovated and have its children's play room expanded, but it found no abuse, Wozniak said and wARSAW, Poland -- Poland's Interior Ministry is working with human rights organizations to investigate allegations of mistreatment of illegal immigrants in detention centres, the ministry said Monday. Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak told The Associated Press that officials and watchdog groups, including the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, will visit five centres where foreigners who entered EU member Poland illegally are being held pending a decision on whether they will be deported or allowed to stay. She said the government and the watchdog group will publish separate reports from the visits. Their conclusions will be taken into account in a new law on foreigners being currently worked out. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.