Appeals court rejects prosecutor general's plea for nationalist march

A Warsaw appeals court has rejected a request by Poland's prosecutor general to suspend the implementation of an earlier court decision to ban a nationalist march in Warsaw. Zbigniew Ziobro, the country's prosecutor general and also the justice minister, argued that the ban on the Independence March, to be held on Poland's November 11 Independence Day, "restricts the constitutional freedom of assembly." But on Monday the Court of Appeal in Warsaw told PAP that Ziobro's motion has been dismissed. Two courts have already banned this year's Independence March, which would have normally put an end to the dispute. But in a separate development on Friday the prosecutor general decided to bring an extraordinary appeal before the Supreme Court, requesting the decision prohibiting the registration of the Independence March to be revoked.