15 detained after Polish abortion ban protest

A crowd outside the house of Poland’s ruling conservative party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Police in Poland say they detained 15 people during protests in Warsaw against a court ruling that toughened the nation’s strict abortion laws.

Hundreds of people protested on Thursday night in front of the ruling right-wing party offices and the home of its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, in defiance of a pandemic-related ban on public gatherings.