However, the current government does not recognise the legitimacy of many TK judges, including some of those who issued yesterday’s ruling.
However, the current government does not recognise the legitimacy of many TK judges, including some of those who issued yesterday’s ruling.
Both men have admitted to the crimes they are accused of and could face up to ten years in prison.
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KaczyÅ„ski also accused Tusk of wanting to turn Poles into “farmhands for Germany”.
Silesian is spoken at home by 460,000 people in Poland, but there is debate over whether it is a language or a dialect.
The head of the episcopate warns that “one must never comply with…laws that allow the direct murder of innocent human beings”.
The development marks another potential blow to the government.
The former conservative government made emergency contraceptives available by prescription only in 2017.
But Tusk admits that the measure does not have the support of all his coalition partners.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor general announced that he does not recognise as legitimate an order by the constitutional court to suspend the move.
Andrzej Duda called for the pair to be immediately released from prison.
Former interior minister Mariusz KamiÅ„ski claims to be a “political prisoner”.
Insulting a public official or a constitutional body is a crime in Poland that carries a potential prison sentence of up to two years.
The decision marks a further legal blow to the new government’s efforts to regain control of public media from the former ruling party.
The court called the slogans displayed on the vans “hate speech”.