In a letter to the speaker of the Polish parliament, sent on 31 March and published on 3 April, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks calls on the Polish parliament to reject the amendments to the Act on the National Council for the Judiciary, fearing that they will “encroach on the independence of the judiciary”.
Muiznieks says that the amendments would give parliament the power to appoint the judges who sit on the National Council for the Judiciary, which would...