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Piotr Igor Ikonowicz ([ˈpiɔt iɡɔr ˈikɔnɔvit͡sz] ; born 14 May 1956 in Pruszków) is a Polish politician. A graduate of the faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw University and the Institute of Geography of Developing States, in the early 1980s he engaged himself in socialist anti-government activities, for which he was arrested and imprisoned in 1981. Released soon afterwards, following the imposition of the Martial Law in Poland he was again arrested and sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for organization of May Day demonstration independently from the communist authorities.