Polish President Andrzej Duda was reportedly asked by the wives of Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik to grant a pardon to their husbands. Instead of pardoning both politicians, however, the Polish ...

A protester with a sign reading 'Solidarity with Kamiński and Wąsik' outside the Polish Parliament in Warsaw on January 11, 2024. Polish President Andrzej Duda said he would pardon the two ...

In his statement, Duda criticized Bodnar for not deciding to allow Kamiński and Wąsik to take a break from serving their sentence. "He could have done it at least due to humanitarian causes, to ...

Duda then threatened to veto Tusk’s budget while it included funds for the management of public media. The government responded by putting the network, and Polish news agency PAP, into liquidation.

Poland’s president said Tuesday he was once again pardoning two politicians who were arrested earlier this month amid a bitter standoff between the new centrist government and the previous ...

He also said he had told Duda that the president “has had a hand since 2015 in the devastation of the rule of law and legal order in Poland.” In his own press conference, Duda called for “deescalation ...

On Thursday, Duda defended his earlier pardoning of the two lawmakers and said that after meeting with their wives he had submitted a new pardon application to the prosecutor general.

The arrest of Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik is the latest episode in a struggle between Poland’s new centrist government led by Donald Tusk and the ousted PiS party.

Kamiński is a former interior minister and Wąsik a former deputy interior minister. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets in Poland’s capital on Thursday to protest their detention, as ...