Published 5 August 2021 at 06.51
Domestic. There will be no justice for the Stalinist judge Stefan Michnik, who was wanted by Poland on suspicion of having sentenced a number of Polish anti-communists to death in mock trials. Sweden has consistently refused to release Michnik – and now he has died.
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Stefan Michnik, who was recently registered in Gothenburg, died on June 27, at the age of 91 years.
This is stated in an obituary from his brother, Adam Michnik – a left-liberal publicist who is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. It reports Polsat News.
The obituary has been highlighted by Marcin Romanowski, State Secretary at the Polish Ministry of Justice. Romanowski states on Twitter that Stefan Michnik finally died after “having been on the run and hiding in Sweden for years”.
“Fortunately, God's court is waiting”
Fria Tider reported in 2019 that Sweden then refused to extradite Stefan Michnik to Poland, where he was wanted for crimes against humanity during Stalin's reign of terror.
Michnik was suspected of having committed 30 crimes “which bear the marks of crimes against humanity “during the Stalin era, specifically in Warsaw during the years 1952-1953.
Death sentences for” anti-communist activities “
As a judge, he is said to have issued illegal death sentences against Polish freedom fighters accused of “anti-communist activities”.
Stefan Michnik came to Sweden in 1969 like many other Jewish communist supporters in connection with the anti-Semitic purges within the Polish Communist Party. He later became a Swedish citizen.
In August 2000, Michnik told Aftonbladet that he considered himself innocent. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture.