
Tens of Thousands Protest in Poland Against Ex-ministers’ Imprisonment
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters massed outside Poland’s Parliament on Thursday to protest against the new government’s changes to state media and the imprisonment of two former ministers convicted of abuse of power. On Jan. 9, Polish police entered the presidential palace in Warsaw and arrested Mariusz Kaminski, former interior minister, and his deputy Maciej Wasik, both members of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. Both ex-ministers served under Poland’s previous PiS-led government. The arrests appear to be a political purge following contentious elections last October. After running the country since 2015, the PiS party was swept from power last October. It was replaced by a broad coalition of left-leaning and nominally conservative parties....
