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Investigation into abuse of power by prosecution and special services against Przemysław Krych

16 April 2025

On 17 March 2025, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin launched an investigation into the alleged abuse of power by officers of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) and the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice. The investigation was initiated following an offence notification submitted by Bartosz Kramek, Chair of Supervisory Board of the Open Dialogue Foundation […]

Polish Radio loses lawsuit against Open Dialogue Foundation

21 February 2025

On 4 December 2024, the Regional Court in Warsaw ordered Polish Radio to issue a lengthy apology and pay PLN 200,000 in compensation to the Open Dialogue Foundation for numerous defamatory statements made during the rule of the Law and Justice (PiS) party. A judgment has been delivered in the lawsuit concerning the violation of […]

Dominik Tarczyński’s late-night apology. MEP loses lawsuit against Open Dialogue Foundation

8 January 2025

Before midnight on Friday 3 January, MEP Dominik Tarczyński published a post apologising to the Open Dialogue Foundation and its President Lyudmyla Kozlovska, whom he had accused of laundering Russian money. The apology is the result of the final court judgement made on 20 December 2024 (the Court of Appeal in Warsaw rejected Tarczyński’s appeal). […]

Polish prosecution drops case against Bartosz Kramek. End of politically motivated criminal proceedings

15 December 2024

On 21 November 2024, the Lublin Regional Prosecutor’s Office closed and later on 6 December discontinued the politically motivated case under the reference RP I Ds 34.2018 against Bartosz Kramek – Chair of Supervisory Board at the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF). The decision was justified by the fact that the collected “evidence did not provide […]

The public prosecution service must regain public trust! Call for a fair, transparent and comprehensive review of political criminal proceedings and improved communication with citizens

29 November 2024

Warsaw, 29 November 2024 Prof. Adam BodnarAttorney General of the Republic of PolandMinister of Justice Prosecutor Dariusz KornelukNational Prosecutor Prosecutor Katarzyna KwiatkowskaChairperson of the Panel of Prosecutors to investigate cases of public interest by virtue of their subject matter and nature,conducted and completed between 2016 and 2023 Honourable Minister, Honourable Prosecutors, We, the authors of […]

Witold Waszczykowski’s debacle. Court orders apologies

7 June 2024

The leader of the Law and Justice Party’s list for the European Parliament from Łódź and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, who publicly accused the Foundation of anti-Polish activities and called it an “agent of Russian influence”, has lost a lawsuit against us for violation of personal rights. The judgement is final. The […]

Hall of Shame: ODF spearheards the reckoning of the Law and Justice

25 May 2024

On 15 October 2023, the Open Dialogue Foundation launched its all-new project. ListyHańby (Hall Of Shame) is a new platform aimed at tracking the abuses of the rule of law in Poland committed by the political party PiS (Law and Justice) and its cronies during its majority government between 2015 and 2023.  Covering all levels […]

Court orders Patryk Jaki to apologize — the Foundation wins another personal rights lawsuit

5 April 2024

On 5 April 2024, the Regional Court in Warsaw ruled that Patryk Jaki, a Member of the European Parliament representing the Law and Justice (PiS) party, violated the personal rights of the Open Dialogue Foundation. Now Jaki must apologise for calling us “Russian agents” and accusing us of “lobbying for Kremlin oligarchs” in 2019. The […]

Defamation case win against Wąsik. Court hands down final judgement

23 February 2024

On 23 February 2024, the Court of Appeal in Warsaw ruled that former Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration (MSWiA) Maciej Wąsik infringed the personal rights of the Open Dialogue Foundation and its heads Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bartosz Kramek. He must publish an apology for the statements he made in 2018-2019, […]

Turning To Face Citizens: Public Hearing of Public National Prosecutor Candidates

22 February 2024

A civic hearing of the candidates for the office of the National Public Prosecutor was held on 21 February 2024. It was organised by Democracy Action (Akcja Demokracja), the Open Dialogue Foundation, the “Defensor Iuris” Bar Association (Stowarzyszenie Adwokackie Defensor Iuris), Władysław Bartoszewski’s Skwer Association, and Video-KOD. The purpose of the hearing was to: rebuild […]

The House of Cards Poland: The aftermath of the parliamentary elections on the rule of law

17 January 2024

1. How did the parliamentary elections pan out? Following the parliamentary elections in October 2023, the political situation in Poland has changed substantially. According to the final count by the National Electoral Commission, turnout reached a record-setting 74.4%. In the lower house, the Sejm, the opposition, secured 248 seats, compared to the Law and Justice […]

Open Dialogue Foundation at the 2023 OSCE WHDC

12 October 2023

Like every year, ODF took an active part in the OSCE’s Warsaw Human Dimension Conference. Unlike in 2022 we didn’t just focus the assembly’s attention on rule of law challenges in Poland, but also presented our findings on financial exclusion stemming from the abuse of AML/CFT laws by authoritarian states. The Warsaw Human Dimension Conference […]

ODF and Themis ‘Malicious Prosecution’ Report on Polish Public Prosecutor’s Office

7 October 2023

Together with the “Themis” Association of Judges, we are proud to present the latest version of the report on abuses of power perpetrated by the Polish public prosecutor’s office under the rule of Zbigniew Ziobro: “Selected Cases of Malicious Prosecution and Derelition of Duties“. Monday 9 October, 16:00 – there will be a live broadcast […]

ODF secures 4 PACE documents in defence the rule of law and human rights

3 May 2023

During the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly 2023 of the Council of Europe that concluded on April 28th, our representation (Martin Mycielski and Katarzyna Szczypska) together with Judge Maciej Ferek (reinstated after 522 days of suspension for applying the primacy of European law), discussed the rule of law and political persecution in Poland and […]

The Supreme Administrative Court: The ban on Lyudmyla Kozlovska’s entry into Poland is unjustified

9 December 2022

On 5 December 2022, the Supreme Administrative Court overruled the last verdict of the neo-judges at the Voivodeship Administrative Court that was unfavourable to Lyudmyla Kozlovska and thus ,the decision of the Mazovian Voivodeship in her case. The Court concluded that the President of the Open Dialogue Foundation poses no threat to national security – […]

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