Adam Bodnar
Polish human rights activist and ombudsman
Photo: Adrian Grycuk, CC BY 3.0 pl (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- 5d ago
Polish prosecutors ask Supreme Court to lift immunity of three Warsaw judges
Prosecutors filed the requests on Friday, 9 October 2026, accusing Piotr Schab, Przemysław Radzik and Michał Lasota of posing as disciplinary prosecutors after they had been dismissed in 2025.
- Oct 4
Adam Bodnar faults prosecution over safe conduct ruling for Marcin Romanowski
Former justice minister Adam Bodnar argued that prosecutors should have moved to recuse Judge Konrad Mielcarek before the Warsaw District Court granted a safe conduct letter to former deputy minister Marcin Romanowski in the Justice Fund investigation.
- Jul 4
New TK judge Patyra asks President Nawrocki to set swearing-in date, as Barski opinion row flares
Constitutional Tribunal judge-elect Sławomir Patyra has formally asked President Karol Nawrocki to schedule his oath of office, after the president failed to act following the end of his predecessor's term on 28 June.
- Jun 19
Sejm lifts immunity of former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro after defamation complaint by Poland's National Prosecutor
Poland's lower house voted 238 to 198 on Friday to strip former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro of his parliamentary immunity, clearing the way for a private prosecution by National Prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk over remarks made during a December 2025 PiS press conference.
- Jun 3
Poland threatens to strip Zelensky of top honour after Ukraine names unit after UPA partisans
President Karol Nawrocki has asked the Chapter of the Order of the White Eagle to consider revoking the honour from Volodymyr Zelensky, after the Ukrainian leader named a special forces unit after the UPA, whose wartime record includes the massacre of Poles.
- May 30
Polish Justice Minister Dismisses Rector of Ziobro-Era Academy, Sparking Legal Standoff
Poland's Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek dismissed Michał Sopiński as rector of the Academy of Justice on Friday, citing 'gross and persistent violations of law.' Sopiński immediately rejected the move, claiming a Constitutional Tribunal injunction shields him.