Poland’s ex-ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has complained to the Council of Europe on January 25 over the new government’s “attack on public media, prosecutor’s office and human rights violations related to torture.” The complaint is the latest instalment of political conflict in Poland that has grown ever more intense since the new four-party government under Prime Minister Donald Tusk took over in mid-December. ‘Resolutions that we submitted to the Council of Europe show what has happened only during the first month of the Tusk government: an attack on public media, the prosecution, and …
