Tag: propaganda

The Law and Justice (PiS) Party and Ziobro arm themselves to strike fear into entrepreneurs; to strike them not with a stick, but with a truncheon. Michał Romanowski – Professor of commercial law, Warsaw University. Attorney-at-Law at the Romanowski i Wspólnicy Law Office. In a recent interview with Forbes, Arkadiusz Muś, one of Poland’s most […]

The Open Dialogue Foundation and the “Themis” Association of Judges have published a report outlining how the Polish public prosecutor’s office operated under the rule of Zbigniew Ziobro. Entrepreneurs speak out about harassment by investigators. The report features a number of stories of people who experienced repression by the public prosecutor’s office in Poland under […]

Not enough trees have been felled over the last eight years in the country to print reports on the scandals and wrongdoings not addressed by the Law and Justice (PiS) government. This is what it looks like: a raid by special service officers at 6.00 in the morning, a house search, handcuffs, and then detention […]

At the beginning of the week, the Open Dialogue Foundation and the Association of Judges “Themis” (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Sędziów „Themis”) published a report that portrays the actions of the Public Prosecution Office under Zbigniew Ziobro in quite a terrible light. In this report, businessmen recount the harassment they have suffered at the hands of investigators. […]

On Monday afternoon, at a meeting marking the publication of a report, former PKP (Polish Railways) head Jakub Karnowski and entrepreneurs Piotr Osiecki and Przemyslaw Krych spoke about the investigations and repression that have befallen them in recent years at the hands of the Polish Prosecutor’s Office. They spoke not only of bogus charges, detentions […]

The editor-in-chief of Gazeta Polska accused the Open Dialogue Foundation of being sponsored by Russian special services. However, before the court had even handed down its judgment, he still managed to turn the public prosecutor’s office against the people who run the Foundation, i.e., Lyudmyla Kozlovska and her husband, Bartosz Kramek. “Mr Tomasz Sakiewicz, who […]

Telewizja Polska is to apologise the Open Dialogue Foundation for spreading injurious and false information about the entity at the beginning of the main evening edition of Wiadomości News Service. They are also to pay PLN 200 thousand in compensation, as determined by the District Court of Warsaw. This court case, which can be described […]

The Polish public broadcaster has been obliged to apologise in its major news programmes for almost 40 broadcasts concerning the foundation and the couple who manage it, Bartosz Kramek and Lyudmyla Kozlovska. The District Court in Warsaw decided that the government broadcasting company was also to pay PLN 200,000 in damages. “Perhaps this court ruling […]

TVP must apologise to Bartosz Kramek, Lyudmyla Kozlovska and the Open Dialogue Foundation for the violation of their personal rights. That is the decision of the District Court in Warsaw. Moreover, TVP must also pay a total of PLN 200,000 in damages, according to Wirtualne Media. Open Dialogue Foundation wins court case against TVP The […]

Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bartosz Kramek of the Open Dialogue Foundation have successfully sued TVP for libel. According to the judgment issued by the Court following a four-year trial, Polish Television’s obligations include apologising to the activists at the beginning of its “Wiadomości” news service. The Foundation dubbed this ruling “an unprecedented judgment issued in the […]

TVP is obliged to apologise Bartosz Kramek, Lyudmyla Kozlovska and the Open Dialogue Foundation for the violation of their personal rights – ruled the District Court in Warsaw. In addition, TVP must pay a total of PLN 200,000 in damages. “This is yet another win in our litigation for infringement of our personal rights. The […]

Lyudmyla Kozlovska has announced the surprising piece of information. The court has issueda decision in the case involving the Open Dialogue Foundation, which brought a lawsuitagainst Polish Television [i.e. TVP]. The justice finally prevailed, after four years of courtproceedings. TVP will have to apologize to the plaintiff, but this is not the end of the […]

The District Court in Warsaw ruled that TVP must apologise to the Open Dialogue Foundation for years of manipulation and dissemination of 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”. The verdict […]

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 […]