US President Donald Trump’s pardon envoy Ed Martin has told Polish media that action against the former justice minister in the last Conservative (PiS) government taken by the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk represented “lawfare” weaponised to fight political opponents.
Ziobro has been granted an entry visit to the US following his being granted asylum by the last Hungarian government led by PM Viktor Orbán, but then threatened with being sent back to Poland by the new head of the Hungarian government, Péter Magyar.
The PiS ex-minister has been indicted by the prosecution service controlled by the Tusk government on charges of abuse of power during his time as justice minister (2007-2015), his parliamentary immunity lifted and arrest warrant issued. However, no European Arrest Warrant has as yet been applied for via the Polish courts.
