Supreme Court rules Jurczyk and Hofman must return to Screening Court

The Supreme Court has annulled the verdicts of the Screening Court, according to which Marian Jurczyk and Jacek Hofman had been found guilty of lying that they had not co-operated with the Communist secret police. Jurczyk was an anti-communist opposition leader in the 1970s and was a senator until the Screening Court found him guilty. Both he and Hofman, now a well-known attorney, claim they were blackmailed by the secret police. The Screening Court will now have to re-examine their cases. The Court yesterday also dismissed an appeal by former Transport Minister Krzysztof Luks, who had been found guilty of making a false screening statement. This means he will not be allowed to hold public posts for the next ten years. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 6) T.J.