SLD-UP candidate Malachowski accused over remarks about court ruling

The Court of Appeal is to hear charges against Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union (SLD-UP) parliamentary candidate Aleksander Malachowski that he committed llbel when he described a sentence passed on Szczecin Solidarnosc leader Marian Jurczyk as "A court's crime." Jurczyk was found guilty of concealing information during his political screening process about his links to the communist Security Service (SB). The charges against Malachowski are based on comments he made in an article published last year in the left-wing weekly Przeglad. He faces up to three years in prison, if found guilty. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A10) A.Z.