Polish judge critical of government barred from returning to work

A Warsaw judge fiercely critical of the government's overhaul of the judiciary has been denied the right to return to work, despite a Warsaw court earlier issuing a ruling ordering that he be reinstated to his post. On Saturday, the website of the public TV broadcaster TVP wrote that Igor Tuleya, suspended almost two years ago by the now liquidated Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, had been allowed to return to work by the president of the Warsaw district court, Joanna Przanowska-Tomaszek. He was also to be sent on overdue leave. But on Monday Tuleya told a press conference that the president of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw had revoked this decision.