(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
–Nikolaf Mikitin, the Polish official who played a prominent part in the steiger trial and was sentenced to jail for falsifying evidence, was released from prison on an order granting amnesty.
Mikitin was one of the leading figures in the trial of the student Stanislaw Steiger, who was charged with having thrown a bomb at the Polish president Wojciech### Steiger was after a long trial found to be innocent and was released by the court.
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