Riot police deployed at Poland's Constitutional Court in stand-off with Tusk government

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Riot police have been deployed at Poland's Constitutional Court in Warsaw after Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said he had asked to strip court president Bogdan Święczkowski and vice-president Bartłomiej Sochański of immunity so they can be criminally charged. BBC News

BBC NewsPolice deployed during stand-off over control of top Poland courtThe escalation came after the government suspended two senior justices and moved to bring criminal charges against them.

When a government says it is depoliticising the courts, what separates reform from a power struggle over who controls them?

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