Hungary grants asylum to former Polish justice minister Ziobro

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Zbigniew Ziobro is accused of regularly withdrawing money from a state fund that helps victims of crime while he was a minister. He was expelled from Poland in the fall, then appeared in Budapest, and on Monday it was revealed that he had been granted political asylum. The two opposing major Polish political blocs have completely different opinions about what happened.

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Zbigniew Ziobro, a heavyweight of the former national-conservative government in Poland, where he was prosecuted by the courts, took refuge in Budapest with his ally Viktor Orbán. It is a first in the European Union.

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"Newsweek" has reviewed the PiS's daily briefing. Party headquarters is instructing politicians on what to say about Zbigniew Ziobro and his asylum in Hungary. The daily briefing mentions Ziobro being transported to Poland by the security services in a trunk, and the former minister's defense attorney was also provided to MPs. According to our information, Nowogrodzka's instructions to PiS MPs were consulted with Ziobro himself before being sent…

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I was granted asylum because I am the victim of a hunt and a smear campaign by Donald Tusk's government, said former Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro in an interview with TVN24.

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Monika Stefanek: Hungary's decision to grant asylum to the former Polish Minister of Justice is grotesque, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Zbigniew Ziobro. Photo: facebook.com/ZiobroPL As reported on Tuesday, January 13th, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper, the European Union sees itself as a community of democracies. "This means that persecution for political reasons cannot take place in any of its member states. The…