Walesa charged with perjury

Lech Walesa, the founder and first leader of the Solidarity Union and a former Polish president, has been charged with perjury in a case related to documents indicating that he was an informant for the communist security services in the 1970s. Walesa appeared before a prosecutor on Friday to hear the charges. Walesa, who was questioned as a suspect, denied the charges and refused to make further testimony.