Poland's Nobel Peace Prize winner bedridden in hospital with broken leg Lech Walesa helped found the Solidarity trade union movement in 1980 He is being treated in the same hospital as an old communist nemesis General Czeslaw Kiszczak played a key role in imposing martial law in 1981 Hospital doctors are examining Kiszczak to see if he is fit to stand trial

By Corey Charlton for MailOnline

Published: 13:25 EST, 10 December 2014 | Updated: 14:10 EST, 10 December 2014

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Poland's former democracy leader Lech Walesa has broken his leg - and landed in a hospital where a fellow patient is a communist-era official involved in directing the 1981 crackdown that put him in prison.

Walesa, 71, the founder of the Solidarity trade union and a former president of Poland, broke his right leg on Tuesday while leaving a church in his hometown of Gdansk.

A photo he posted on his blog shows Walesa in his hospital bed with his broken leg raised and in a cast.

Lech Walesa, a former president of Poland and democracy campaigner during the 1980s, pictured in hospital with a broken leg

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