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Poland's Constitutional Court Rules to Remove the Ombudsman Adam Bodnar from Office
Poland's politically compromised Constitutional Court has ruled a specific article of the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights to be unconstitutional. In effect, the current Commissioner, Adam...
15-04-2021 13:10 -
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"I Treat it as a Delegation": Our Correspondent in Belarus Sends a Letter From Jail
In his letter from a Belarusian detention center, our correspondent Andrzej Poczobut writes that he was mentally prepared for such a scenario. Together with four other members of the independent...
14-04-2021 14:33 -
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The International Press Institute Welcomes Decision to Suspend Orlen's Takeover of Polska Press [STATEMENT]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today welcomed the announcement that a Polish court has suspended the...
13-04-2021 13:45 -
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Warsaw District Court Blocks Orlen's Takeover of Polska Press
The District Court in Warsaw decided to suspend the antitrust authority's approval for the takeover of the German media group Polska Press by the Polish state-owned oil company Orlen. The court's...
13-04-2021 13:18 -
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Police Officer Recorded Assaulting a Young Woman With a Baton During an Anti-lockdown Protest
A local media outlet in Głogów, south-western Poland, published a video showing a policeman beating a young woman with a police baton and then knocking her to the ground. "This has been a...
13-04-2021 10:20 -
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Orbán, Salvini and Morawiecki Want "New" Europe. Putin Offers a Blueprint [OPINION]
On April 1st, Mateusz Morawiecki and Mateo Salvini convened with Viktor Orbán in Budapest to discuss their shared concerns and priorities concerning the European Union. While the meeting did not...
09-04-2021 13:25 -
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CJEU Receives Another Case Questioning the Legitimacy of Hundreds of PiS-Appointed Judges
Can a court whose judge has been appointed by the politically compromised National Council of the Judiciary still be considered independent? The answer to this question, posed recently to the CJEU by...
09-04-2021 13:17 -
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As Pandemic Rages On, Poland is Mired in Vaccine Chaos. Public Health Expert: "The Situation is Critical"
"As of today, we don't even how many people have been vaccinated in individual counties" - says Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski, an expert of the Supreme Medical Council for COVID-19.
08-04-2021 17:23 -
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Under Cover of Covid, Poland is Stifling Free Media - And All Europe Should Be Worried [GARTON ASH]
A planned 'coronavirus tax' on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece. It is not just democracy in Poland that is at stake here; it is democracy in...
08-04-2021 10:41 -
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Persecution of Poles in Belarus: Lukashenko Refuses to Back Down
Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko has spoken up about the wave of arrests targeting members of the Union of Poles in Belarus. While the activists could face up to twelve years in prison,...
07-04-2021 15:00 -
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Polish Government Wants to Challenge the Primacy of EU Law in Court
Later this month, Poland's Constitutional Court may decide whether European law stands in conflict with the country's constitution. A favorable ruling will give the Polish government an excuse to...
02-04-2021 13:34 -
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European Commission Sues Poland for Undermining Judicial Independence
The European Commission has yet again decided to refer Poland to the European Court of Justice, asking it to order interim measures to prevent the Polish government from further undermining judicial...
01-04-2021 15:29 -
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Parliament Moves Ahead on Draft Law to Replace the Istanbul Convention With a Treaty Banning Gay Marriage
The lower house of the Polish parliament has moved ahead on a legislative project backed by the catholic-fundamentalist organization Ordo Iuris. While still waiting to be considered by appropriate...
31-03-2021 14:07 -
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Gessen: "it is shocking that so many people have chosen to ignore the rules of logic in reacting to my piece"
An article published in the New Yorker concerning the ongoing attempts by the Polish government to silence Holocaust research in Poland was met by widespread criticism after its author, Masha Gessen,...
30-03-2021 17:53 -
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"You Can't Defend the Truth With Lies": A Response to Masha Gessen's Column in the New Yorker
While it is true that thousands of Polish Jews fell victim to their fellow Polish citizens who participated in the Nazi-orchestrated genocide, accusing Poles of being collectively responsible for the...
30-03-2021 17:43 -
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Warsaw City Council Member Receives Anonymous Death Threats Over Her Pro-Choice Advocacy
Since mid-February, a member of the Warsaw city council and a vocal supporter of the Women's Strike movement received numerous emails with death threats over her pro-choice advocacy. The anonymous...
29-03-2021 13:51 -
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Prosecutors Go After Anonymous Online Comments Deemed Insulting for the Minister of Justice
The Public Prosecutor's Office in Płock demands the identity of wyborcza.pl readers who left comments under an article concerning the Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro. It accuses them of...
26-03-2021 12:57 -
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Biden Administration Criticizes Germany Over Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. Democratic Senators Push for Sanctions
On Tuesday, during the very first meeting with his German counterpart in Brussels, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sharply criticized Germany for its support of the Russian-backed Nord...
26-03-2021 12:51 -
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The Arrest of Andrzej Poczobut: A Message of Support from the Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza [MICHNIK]
Desperate to retain its grip on power, Alexander Lukashenko's crumbling regime is reaching for old authoritarian methods. It arrests journalists and goes after anyone who dares to think and act...
25-03-2021 16:38 -
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Crackdown on Polish Activists in Belarus: Gazeta Wyborcza Correspondent Among the Arrested [ALERT]
Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent and leading member of the Union of Poles in Belarus (UPB), Andrzej Poczobut, has been arrested in the city of Hrodna on Thursday morning. He could face up to 12 years in...
25-03-2021 13:31 -
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Leading Press Freedom Organizations Urge Justice Minister to Withdraw His Lawsuit Against Gazeta Wyborcza Editor-in-chief
The partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) have issued a statement in which they strongly condemn the civil defamation lawsuit launched against the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza by...
24-03-2021 17:21 -
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Popular Polish Writer Charged for Calling President Duda a "Moron" on Social Media
Jakub Żulczyk, a best-selling fiction author whose novel "Blinded by the Lights" (Ślepnąc od świateł) has been adapted into a popular TV show with the same name, is facing charges for insulting the...
23-03-2021 10:16 -
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The Minister of Justice Sues Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
The Polish Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, has filed a lawsuit against Adam Michnik, the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. It is yet another in a series of nearly 60 lawsuits that ruling camp...
22-03-2021 16:22 -
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COVID-19 Strikes Back: Record Number of Daily Cases, Shortage of Hospital Beds, Nationwide Restrictions in Poland
The COVID-19 pandemic in Poland is picking up pace, again. Starting Saturday, new restrictions will be extended nationwide and last until after the Easter holidays. Should the number of new...
19-03-2021 13:15 -
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Public Prosecutor Requests That Judge Igor Tuleya Be Seized by the Police and Brought to Testify
Igor Tuleya, a judge persecuted by the ruling camp for not toeing the party line, continues to refuse to appear in a hearing regarding the unlawful revocation of his immunity. The National Public...
18-03-2021 15:01 -
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Ruling Camp's Harassment of Independent Judges: Public Prosecutor's Office Seeks to Revoke the Immunity of Three Supreme Court Justices
The National Public Prosecutor's Office has requested that three 'old' justices of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court be stripped of their immunity. They are to answer for the negligence of...
18-03-2021 10:39 -
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Poland's Replacement for Istanbul Convention Would Ban Abortion and Gay Marriage [Balkan Insight]
According to documents leaked to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), the Polish government's alternative to the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and...
17-03-2021 15:02 -
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Gag Lawsuits and Judicial Intimidation: PiS Seeks to Turn Courts Into an Instrument of State Censorship
Gag lawsuits, demands for rectification or withdrawal of articles, countless calls for apologies and compensation, attempts to muzzle independent judges - Poland's ruling camp politicians are...
16-03-2021 16:11 -
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