Europe | Capturing the courts

As Poland’s government punishes judges, corruption is rising

Judges who appeal to European law may be sent to jail

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THE CASE AGAINST Igor Tuleya, a judge in Warsaw, is mysterious. Poland’s justice ministry wants to prosecute him for letting spectators and reporters attend a hearing in 2016 on whether the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party violated quorum rules in parliament. That seems odd: under Polish law judges have the right to decide whom to allow into their courtrooms.

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