Tag: court disputes

The District Court in Warsaw ruled that Polish Public TV (TVP) must apologise to the Open Dialogue Foundation for using manipulation and disseminating lies about them. The sum of PLN 200,000 was awarded as compensation, as well as the publication of an apology on the broadcaster’s website and in its main news programme “Wiadomości”. After […]

TVP has been obliged to apologise for the hateful, manipulative and untruthful propaganda targeting the Open Dialogue Foundation. This has been the activists’ fifth win in a series of legal proceedings over personal rights violations. “Propaganda and hate speech spread by TVP cannot go unpunished. Without this venom, the Law and Justice party would not […]

In its judgment, the court has crushed the public broadcaster and ruled that it must apologise to the couple in charge of ODF for its repeated lies, insinuations and manipulations regarding them. TVP is also to pay over PLN 260 000 in damages. The JUDGMENT in the four-year-long litigation for infringement of personal rights brought to […]

After nearly four years, the Open Dialogue Foundation won a lawsuit against the Polish Public TV (TVP), which it had sued for violating the personal rights of the Foundation, Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bartosz Kramek. The public boradcaster is to pay PLN 200 000 in compensatory damages and to publish an apology on its website and […]

We gladly accept Marcin Rey’s (“Russian V Column in Poland“) apology which ends several years of litigation between us. The libel dispute resulted from a 2017 publication, which was widely used by the Polish state broadcaster TVP and other government mouthpieces as well as the Polish (compromised by the ruling, rule of law-rogue Law and […]

The Supreme Administrative Court ruled – contrary to what the services subordinate to PiS have claimed – that Kozlovska poses no threat to national security. The court overturned the negative verdict of the Voivodeship Administrative Court judges. This is the 4th ruling that is beneficial for the activist, but she still cannot return to Poland. […]

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 – […]

The decision to ban Lyudmyla Kozlovska, the Ukrainian head of an NGO, from entering Poland does not have a justifiable basis, the country’s top administrative court has ruled. Kozlovska has been unable to enter Poland for the last five years on unspecified security grounds. She has always denied that there is any proper basis for […]

“The collected material, both secret and public, does not allow to state that Lyudmyla Kozlovska poses a threat to the security of the state,” the Supreme Administrative Court stated. The politically persecuted president of the Open Dialogue Foundation can again apply for the right of residence in Poland. The final decision of the Supreme Administrative […]

The Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) overturned the verdict of the Provincial Administrative Court (WSA) against Lyudmyla Kozlovska. The NSA found that the material gathered did not lead to the conclusion that Kozlovska posed a threat to state security. This means that the expulsion of the President of the Open Dialogue Foundation from Poland and the […]

We won the lawsuit for violation of personal rights before the Obolonskyi District Court of Kyiv. The Court ruled in favour of Lyudmyla Kozlovska, the Head of the Open Dialogue Foundation, in her dispute with the NGO ‘Stop Corruption’. The Court found that the information in one of Stop Corruption’s online publications on www.stopcor.org posted […]

The Court of Appeal in Warsaw decided that the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Bartosz Kramek, had been defamed and stigmatised by Tomasz Sakiewicz, the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Polska and by the newspaper’s publisher, Niezależne Wydawnictwo Polskie. The case concerned a photoshopped image of the Chair of ODF’s Supervisory Board […]

The Open Dialogue Foundation has won two more libel lawsuits against Law and Justice party officials. In total, ODF has also instituted 20 such suits in court against key Law and Justice politicians. Already four lawsuits have resulted in settlements in favour of the Foundation. IN AUGUST, ODF revealed that it won the lawsuit filed […]

‘I, Dominik Tarczyński, apologise to Lyudmyla Kozlovska for infringement of her dignity and good name and to the Open Dialogue Foundation in Warsaw (Registration no. (KRS): 0000353754) for damage to its reputation and good name by disseminating damaging and untrue information about their participation in laundering of money coming from Russia during my appearance in […]

“When you don’t know what it is about, it is about money, and very big money, which comes from pro-Russian groups. It should be noted that the Foundation was examined by the Internal Security Agency a long time ago, and at that time everyone was screaming that civil rights were under threat in Poland — […]