On 2 August, Marcin Święcicki, MP of the Civic Platform, was a guest on “24 Pytania – Rozmowa Poranka” broadcast on Polskie Radio 24. The main topic discussed by Katarzyna Adamiak-Sroczyńska included the latest right-wing media reports on the Open Dialogue Foundation.
According to such reports, the ODF has engaged itself in trading weapons and calls for a putsch in Poland. – All such allegations are utterly false – says Mr Święcicki. – They simply raised money and sent bulletproof vests and helmets to civilians at Euromaidan to safeguard them against Putin’s and Yanukovych’s snipers. The ODF obtained a permit for exporting and trading in such vests and helmets, and they are trying to impute that such permit covered firearms and cannons.
In his view, the information spread by the national media, which have become deeply interested in the ODF’s affairs these days, are just a misleading campaign instituted against the Foundation due to the strong anti-government stance expressed by Bartosz Kramek, Head of the Foundation Board. – Accusing them of trying to overthrow the government by force just because their Chairman has published a critical letter calling the citizens to oppose the government, is simply outrageous – says Święcicki.
- Listen to the broadcast
The source: polskieradio.pl
Read other texts:
- Krytyka Polityczna: Open Dialogue Foundation targeted by pro-government media
- Lyudmyla Kozlovska for Newsweek: Silence would be a hypocrisy
- Bartosz Kramek for Radio Zet: “Concession is something we have never concealed”
- TVN24 about the attack on ODF ”We have already got used to tapped telephones”
- Wirtualna Polska about the media and government’s smear campaign against ODF
- Wielowieyski for Gazeta Wyborcza: Open Dialog at a crossroads
- The Open Dialogue Foundation in “Teraz Ja!” program: We feel the pressure, it is a violation of human rights
- Kramek at “Dryjańska naTemat”: We need to stand firm against extermination of NGOs. We have already seen that happening in Russia
- naTemat rebuts conspiracy theories concerning the ODF and Google Inc.’s support for political opposition in Poland
- Onet analyses Marcin Rey’s report on the ODF. “Another attack on the Foundation and yet another disgrace”
- Gazeta.pl’s account on the TVP Channel’s distortions of the truth on the ODF activities
- ‘We are here to defend democracy’ – Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bartosz Kramek in an interview for Gazeta Wyborcza
- “We see the Ministry’s call as censorship” – Bartosz Kramek comments on the Ministry’s letter
- Onet: The Government does not want an Open Dialog
- Polsat News covers the speech of Bartosz Kramek at OSCE/ODIHR HDIM 2017 side event
See also:
- Open Dialogue Foundation’s statement of 21 July 2017 on the dismantling of the rule of law in Poland
- Open Dialogue Foundation’s statement of 23 July 2017
- The statement of the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of 24 July 2017 regarding the judiciary reform
- The Open Dialogue Foundation’s statement of 31 July 2017 (funding and donors, or a few words about ‘soroses’)
