nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210126-191404-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210126s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210126-191404-0 doi eng 342 23 Szczypska, Katarzyna Author aut Witch Hunt against 14 Cracow Judges - An Urgent Call to Action to the EU Commission Szczypska, Katarzyna Verfassungsblog 2021-01-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Judges who have examined cases related to the reinstatement of Prosecutor Mariusz Krasoń have been and are being persecuted for their purely judicial actions. Krasoń called attention to the politicization of the prosecutor’s office in a May 2019 resolution adopted by the Assembly of Prosecutors of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Cracow. As a result he was demoted, harassed, and his workplace was moved around 300 km from his residence. Over the last two months, the Internal Affairs Department of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office has summoned as witnesses 14 judges from five different benches of Cracow’s district, regional and appellate courts. The judges now face potential criminal charges of failure to fulfil obligations as public officials, punishable by up to three years of imprisonment (Art. 231(1) of the Penal Code). Their purported crime? Failing to persecute Prosecutor Krasoń.  CC BY-SA 4.0 judicial independence Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/witch-hunt-against-14-cracow-judges/ raw object