Tomasz Szmydt

In 2024, the District Court of Warsaw issued an arrest warrant, which is valid throughout the European Union, for former judge Tomasz Szmydt. A criminal case of espionage was opened against him. Tomasz Szmydt worked as a judge of the 2nd Department of the Voivodeship Administrative Court of Warsaw. In early May 2024, at a conference in Minsk, he asked Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for political asylum. Later he said that he had received threats of physical violence in Poland.