Amnesty International Hongarije heeft op 6 april 2020 een uitvoerig rapport gepubliceerd over de situatie van de rechterlijke macht in Hongarije, onder de titel Fearing the Unknown.
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‘The decision not only clearly prohibits the Polish government to illegally repress judges, by suspending the so-called Disciplinary Chamber, but has a much broader effect – it should close the way for abuse of the arbitrary recognition of the elections validity’, says the president of the Association of Polish Judges Iustitia professor Krystian Markiewicz.
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The Turkish authorities have drafted an ‘early parole law’ in response to the corona virus crisis. The Platform for an Independent Judiciary in Turkey urges those responsible to consider judges and prosecutors on the same grounds as other prisoners – without bias or predefined restriction. Continue reading Letter to Turkish authorities on ‘crisis parole’
Op maandag 9 maart 2020 zat Katrien Witteman, rechter in de rechtbank Limburg, op de publieke tribune bij het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie in Luxemburg. Zij woonde met een aantal andere rechters uit Polen, België, Noorwegen, Turkije en Nederland de ‘interim measures’-procedure bij die door de Europese Commissie was aangespannen tegen de Republiek Polen in het kader van de inbreukprocedure C-791/19.
The Polish associations Iustitia (judges) and Lex Super Omnia (prosecutors) have published a report to give ‘some idea of the scale of the harassment that affects judges’ in Poland.
It lists dozens of judges and prosecutors facing investigations, disciplinary proceedings and so-called ‘soft repression’.
The presidents of the judicial organizations in the European Union kindly request a personal meeting with president Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission. They underscore that ‘any strategy which considers judicial independence a bargaining chip is completely mistaken’.
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The developments in the Polish judiciary can be difficult to understand for the uninitiated. Polish Ombudsman Adam Bodnar therefore adresses nine popular opinions and possible responses in a recent article.
‘I believe that the internal sense of independence, professional integrity and decency of judges will be a source of effective defence against the attempts of the executive branch of power. However, an in-depth analysis should be continued of the factors that have made, and are still making, the crime against the Polish judiciary possible, and of how to prevent such processes in the future.’
Als het Europese Hof talmt met het doen van een uitspraak in de door de Europese Commissie aanhangig gemaakte procedure, gaat de Poolse regeringspartij PiS met behulp van nep-organen zuiveringen doorvoeren in het gerechtelijk apparaat. Dat schrijft Ewa Iwanowa in het dagblad Gazeta Wyborcza.
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On 4 February 2020, the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court suspended judge Paweł Juszczyszyn from his post and reduced his remuneration by 40%. Judge Juszczyszyn was the first Polish judge to implement the 19 November 2019 verdict, in which the Court of Justice of the European Union established criteria under which the Disciplinary Chamber can be considered independent and impartial.
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