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The power of words - when does a protest become a riot and a hooligan turns into a patriot?
All people in Poland are equal before the law. This sentence is unfortunately not true. The events of last weekend offered a stark reminder of that sad reality.
12-08-2020 17:24 -
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Citing the right to public information, lawyers demand the justification for a pre-trial arrest of an LGBT activist
The decision on Margot's provisional detention should be accessible to everyone since, according to lawyers, it constitutes public information. However, the president of the Warsaw district court...
11-08-2020 12:51 -
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Ministry of Health suspected of mismanaging public funds. Prosecutor's office launches an investigation
The Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw has opened an investigating on the purchase of ventilators and masks by the Ministry of Health- daily "Rzeczpospolita" reported on Monday. The case concerns...
11-08-2020 11:35 -
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Minister of Justice set to crack down on NGOs, announcing new foreign influence transparency law
The party of Zbigniew Ziobro, the minister of justice and attorney general, is now eyeing non-governmental organizations. Suggesting that some of them might be "agents of foreign influence", it has...
10-08-2020 14:39 -
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National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture points to serious abuses concerning LGBT activists detained by the police
Representatives of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (KMPT) talked to 33 people detained in connection with the events that took place on 7 August 2020 in Warsaw after the arrest...
10-08-2020 13:37 -
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I have taken actions ex officio. Statement by the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights following 7th August events in Warsaw
As the Cominissioner for Human Rights, it was with major distress and concern that I observed last night's events (7th August 2020) against the persons protesting against remand detention of an...
10-08-2020 12:07 -
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Polish state is arresting LGBT+ activists for hanging rainbow flags on Warsaw monuments
Welcome to the weekly Newsletter of Wyborcza in English, this week, the ruling camp's anti-LGBT campaign reached new, dark heights after the police arrested several activists for hanging rainbow...
07-08-2020 16:49 -
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Piotr Stasiński: "They want to bury us under an avalanche of lawsuits"
The Polish government seeks to control the public discourse. Gazeta Wyborcza is a flagship for independent quality journalism - and because of that smeared as "anti-state" and "pro-European". ECPMF...
07-08-2020 16:39 -
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A "historic photo" of presidential inauguration taken down by the parliament's Chancellery
Chancellery of the lower chamber of Polish parliament, the Sejm, deleted a symbolic picture made during Andrzej Duda's inaugural ceremony. The photograph, showing the newly re-elected president in...
07-08-2020 12:05 -
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Krzysztof Szczerski is "a serious candidate" to become the new Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jacek Czaputowicz announced he would resign from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs as part of the incoming cabinet reshuffle. The Minister in the Chancellery of the President Andrzej Dera...
06-08-2020 15:37 -
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Spike in coronavirus infections. Government to tighten restrictions in 19 districts. Weddings without elderly relatives.
The government is preparing new sanitary restrictions amid a recent spike in coronavirus infections. Most likely, weddings will take place without elderly relatives and only in face masks. Even...
06-08-2020 11:57 -
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Power against the powerless. Polish state is hunting down LGBT+ activists
The ruling camp's lawless state has dropped its mask. By organising a hunt for alleged "rainbow criminals", it openly reached for tools of political terror.
05-08-2020 15:50 -
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LGBTQ activists arrested over hanging rainbow flags on statues in Warsaw. They might be facing charges for offending religious feelings
Last week, on Tuesday night, LGBTQ activists put flags on some of Warsaw's most prominent statues. One of the groups responsible for the action says two of its members have now been arrested.
05-08-2020 11:26 -
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Shop inspections, higher fines, registration of weddings - the government tightens the screws before the second wave of coronavirus
The Law and Justice government has announced a number of changes in its approach to fighting the coronavirus epidemic. From this week onwards, there will be inspections in shops to verify whether...
04-08-2020 16:56 -
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US to increase its military presence in Poland under new defense agreement, but some of its details spark controversy
The Polish Minister of National Defence, Mariusz Błaszczak, announced in a post on Twitter that the negotiations on a new military agreement with the United States have now been completed. It would...
04-08-2020 13:18 -
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Wanda Traczyk-Stawska: Please tell your sons that the uprising was proof of how much mothers loved their children
"War is the most heinous way of proving a point." An interview with Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, one of the heroines of the Warsaw Uprising.
03-08-2020 12:55 -
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Nearly all cases of election protest reviewed by the Supreme Court. "Election results remain unaffected"
5,8 thousand election protests were filed with the Supreme Court following this year's presidential election. Aleksander Stępkowski, the Supreme Court's spokesperson, announced that most of the cases...
03-08-2020 11:02 -
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Suffering losses due to lockdown, 200 private businesses seek financial compensation from the national treasury
If state authorities fail to respond to their compensation requests, business owners will file a class action lawsuit against the national treasury as soon as in August
31-07-2020 12:32 -
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Activists hang rainbow flags on Warsaw's most iconic statues. Law and Justice MP reports a crime
In the middle of the night, on Tuesday, activists hung rainbow flags on some of Warsaw's most iconic statues. In their manifesto, they refer to the action as "a raid" and "an attack"
30-07-2020 11:45 -
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EU cuts funding to Polish cities declaring themselves "LGBT-free zones"
6 town twinning applications involving Polish authorities that adopted "LGBTI free zones" or "family rights" resolutions were rejected - the EU Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli, wrote on...
29-07-2020 12:34 -
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EU agrees on historic budget, but the rule of law criterion remains on the table [OPINION]
What appears to be strategic appeasement of Poland and Hungary, necessary to break the negotiation impasse, makes it difficult to talk about a win-win situation. If left unaltered, the relative lack...
29-07-2020 12:15 -
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Deputy Health Minister: We're about to enter a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Decision on reopening schools expected mid-August
On Monday, the Ministry of Health will convene a group of experts to devise a strategy for dealing with a potential second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Deputy Minister Waldemar Kraska says a...
28-07-2020 11:02 -
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Council of Europe's Secretary General comments on Poland's intentions to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention
"Leaving the Istanbul Convention would be highly regrettable and a major step backwards in the protection of women against violence in Europe" - Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija...
27-07-2020 09:29 -
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The son of Jacek Kurski, the ruling camp's propaganda czar, was accused of sexually assaulting a minor. The Prosecutor's Office discontinued the case twice
On Tuesday, we published an investigative piece devoted to the drama of 20-year-old Magda Nowakowska, who revealed to us how the son of Jacek Kurski - former MEP, former chairman of the state-owned...
24-07-2020 19:13 -
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Parliament passes law banning Chinese and Russian corporate takeovers
The newly enacted legislation on hostile takeovers comes into force as of today. The law is intended to protect Polish companies from being bought up by Chinese and Russian investors. Experts warn of...
24-07-2020 18:51 -
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Banksy-style mural depicting Kaczyński inspected by local police. Possible criminal investigation
On Thursday, local police officers examined a mural depicting Jarosław Kaczyński which appeared on one of the walls in Kraków's historic district Kazimierz. Possible case for criminal investigation
22-07-2020 14:55 -
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Government eyes withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. Opposition urges president Duda to uphold the status quo
Human rights violations of any kind should always be adamantly opposed and punished - reads one of the key points in a pledge the Left has proposed to prevent Law and Justice from abandoning the...
21-07-2020 16:29 -
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Polish nationalist circles are increasingly being infiltrated by Putin apologists
"The whole imperialist West with its junta in Kiev and its political puppets in Poland has Ukrainian blood on its hands," Marian Barański, an attorney from Warsaw, wrote to Vladimir Putin in 2014...
21-07-2020 15:10 -
There is no freedom without solidarity
