Polish judge flees to Belarus to seek asylum from “political persecution”

https://tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english/polish-high-level-judge-seeks-asylum-in-belarus-st7902344

by aaaronbrown

21 comments

  1. Imagine fleeing from political persecution into *Belarus* of all places.

  2. *Szmydt also accused the U.S. and Great Britain of pusshing Poland into direct military conflict with Belarus and Russia and called on Polish authorities to start a dialogue with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russia.*

    Well, good riddance.

  3. Either a spy or someone that was about to get in very deep shit.

  4. >I was persecuted and threatened for ~~my independent political stand~~ being a traitor.”

    FTFY

  5. He’s from Ordo Juris 🙂 Far-right extremist working with Russia, how surprising.

  7. Is that one of the Judges PiS instated?

    If yes your guess is as good as mine why he flees to Russia‘s puppet regime

  8. PiS (former gov with frozen EU funds due to rule of law violation) appointed judge who was responsible for smear campaign against other judges.
    >Judge Szmydt was involved in the so-called “hate scandal,” exposed in August 2019 by Onet.

    >The reporters alleged at the time that a group of online trolls had run a smear campaign targeting Polish judges opposed to the justice system overhaul carried out by the previous government, led by the nationalist Law and Justice party.

    The reform was bad enough to be article 7 worthy

    >The article 7 process against Poland was launched in 2017 after the hard-right nationalist government of the Law and Justice party began overhauling the court system to increase its control over the judiciary

  11. He was apparently working with cases that involved NATO security clearances.
    I believe it’s pretty obvious what actually happened here.

  12. It is a very big deal.

    As minister of justice stated today, this judge was responsible for cases in which people (military personnel, internal security, govt employees etc.) appealed after being denied of access to strictly confidential information, what means that he could have assisted to secure such clearance to numerous spies.

    [https://tvn24.pl/polska/adam-bodnar-o-sedzim-tomaszu-szmydcie-zwiazanym-z-afera-hejterska-jak-mogl-w-ogole-wpasc-na-taki-pomysl-st7902551](https://tvn24.pl/polska/adam-bodnar-o-sedzim-tomaszu-szmydcie-zwiazanym-z-afera-hejterska-jak-mogl-w-ogole-wpasc-na-taki-pomysl-st7902551)

    Judge is an avid supporter of infamous Law and Justice party and was involved in hate campaign directed towards independent members of judiciary system during Law and Justice governments.

    He also has close ties to most prominent Law and Justice politicians. He was appointed by Law and Justice minister of justice who is often mentioned as highly suspicious individual with very concerning connections.

    I wonder how long will he stay alive. Polish soldier who defected to Belarus in 2022 (probably due to mental health issues) was found dead after 3 months.

  15. I give him a year.

    He will end up exactly like the last Pole who deserted to Belarus

  17. Modern day targowiczanin, and probably not the last.

  19. So he moved to a prison camp run by Putin’s jackal to avoid being jailed in Poland? He’s either insane or he’s a double agent. At least he’s likely to survive a Polish prison … the last Polish defector to Belarus ended up jumping from a window.

  20. This shit is incredibly serious and scary, this guy not only had access to the critical internal security information but also made many important decisions regulating the state activities on a relatively high level. He was also involved in politics on both sides of the spectrum, increasing the political mess we are living in right now. I do hope there will be consequences for the intelligence agencies who allowed all this.

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