Tag: Marcin Warchoł
The Law and Justice party wants harsher penalties for betraying the homeland. Even life imprisonment for espionage
PiS MPs have submitted a bill to the Sejm toughening the penalties for espionage and introducing an unintentional variant of this offence. ‘This could be a provision for abuse and to be used politically,’ warns a criminal law judge.
Who is going to be the new Commissioner for Human Rights in Poland?
The Commissioner for Human Rights Adam Bodnar’s five-year term of office ends on 9 September. It is likely that PiS will treat the election of the new Commissioner as a show of hegemony and a symbolic retaliation against Bodnar as well as lawyers and civil society activists involved in the defence of the rule of law, which means there will be a ‘trench warfare’ between the Sejm and Senate in the autumn
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25.07.2024
Interview of the former President of the ICC, Judge Piotr Hofmański [EJIL:Talk! interview]
23.07.2024
Dr. Machińska: The Romanowski Case Will Set International Boundaries for the Abuse of Immunity
22.07.2024
Bodnar Asks the Venice Commission to Evaluate Solutions for the Neo-Judge Issue
22.07.2024
Scandals from PiS Era May Not Be Quickly Resolved. No One May Be Convicted During Tusk’s Term
17.07.2024
The Justice Committee Endorses Bills Reforming the Constitutional Tribunal: Dubler Verdicts to Be Invalidated
15.07.2024