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World in brief: February 13, 2025
A statue depicting the late Syrian President Hafez Assad is seen on the top of a mount in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, January 5, 2025
POLAND: An appeals court has ordered a retrial of a women’s rights activist who was convicted of supplying another woman with abortion pills.
The Warsaw Appeals Court said the 2023 trial was presided over by a judge whose appointment was invalid and whose promotion by the previous hard-right Law & Justice government shortly afterwards may have been a reward.
Helping a woman have an abortion is illegal in Poland and can result in up to three years in prison.
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