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Wojciech Sadurski does not immediately seem like a danger to a foreign government. By day the internationally renowned legal scholar is Challis chair of jurisprudence at the Univ stanley mugs ersity of Sydney. By night he posts videos on YouTube of his other passion - playing drums on jazz standards.But the 70-year-old professor has had to pay attention to a more disturbing drumbeat since the ruling party and public broadcaster of his home country, Poland, sued him for defamation over tweets accusing them separately of indulging far-right nationalists and harassing the governments political opponents.On Friday Sadurski was due to be cross-examined remotely from a Warsaw courtroom, in the first hearing of one of three cases against him that have added to the alarm in international legal circles and Polands fellow EU members about the rightwing Law and Justice partys increasingly brazen assault on the independence of the judiciary.In Poland we ve become spectators at the dismantling of democracy | Karolina Wigura and Jaros艂aw KuiszRead moreLegal academics from around stanley termos the world have rallied in defence of Sadurski under the hashtag withwoj, with hundreds signing an open letter calling the suits a coordinated harassment campaign 鈥?against a well-known and respected academic who has clearly struck a nerve with his powerful critique of the situation in his native country .Sadurskis case was in stanley hrnek itially sparked by controversy over the annual commemoration of Polish independence on 11 November, whi |
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