ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR: The president of the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly says it is likely the organization will suspend Russia over the war in Chechnya. It represents the ongoing concern the international community has expressed about the conflict. One nation taking a stand against the war is Poland. People there recently took to the streets to voice their opposition. Poland's TVP reports.</s>KASIA GRUTZMACHER, TVP REPORTER (voice-over): Under a banner reading "Freedom for Chechnya," a few hundred were protesting against Russia's military campaign in the breakaway republic. The participants -- including parliament members, aid group officials, artists and intellectuals -- gathered at the castle square in Warsaw's old town. They lit candles and placed them on the ground to form the word Grozny. Polish Humanitarian Action was raising money for an aid convoy to Chechen refugees in Ingushetia. The organizers of the protests collected signatures under on appeal against the war in Chechnya.</s>ADAM BOROWSKI, DEMONSTRATION ORGANIZER (through translator): We must appeal to people's conscience. We must organize humanitarian aid for Chechen people who are dying.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Determination of world public opinion and pressing politicians this way may finally help Chechen people.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We demonstrate against breaking the law in Chechnya, against shelling the cities, against killing innocent civilians.</s>GRUTZMACHER: Salem Bashayev (ph), a deputy speaker of the Chechen parliament, was among the participants of the Warsaw demonstration. Officially, Polish authorities consider Chechnya a part of the Russian Federation, yet Polish public opinion and some right-wing parties have always expressed support for the breakaway republic. Chechen activists
Poles Protest Against Russian War in Chechnya