Lyudmyla Kozlovska testifies on transnational repression at Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in US Congress

Lyudmyla Kozlovska testifies on transnational repression at Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in US Congress

On 24 June 2025, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation Lyudmyla Kozlovska testified at a hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. Congress on transnational repression. The hearing focused on testimonies of several human rights experts, and the following discussion focused on policies and instruments that should be employed to prevent and fight […]

SLAPP & Transnational Financial Repression across Belgium/EU and the United States: The Case Against Lyudmyla Kozlovska and the Open Dialogue Foundation

SLAPP & Transnational Financial Repression across Belgium/EU and the United States: The Case Against Lyudmyla Kozlovska and the Open Dialogue Foundation

In 2022, Kazakhstan’s special services orchestrated a collective criminal complaint in Belgium against the Open Dialogue Foundation and its President, human rights activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska. The operatives, filing complaints on behalf of their minor children, accused the Foundation and its President in harassment, slander and cyberbullying, posed as victims, and demanded the removal of social […]

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

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

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 […]

Investigation launched into alleged blackmail of prominent businessman by security services. Senior PiS-era official involved

Investigation launched into alleged blackmail of prominent businessman by security services. Senior PiS-era official involved

The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin has launched an investigation into a gross abuse of power by officials from the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice and the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA). The alleged offence occurred during the arrest of well-known businessman Przemysław Krych. Przemysław Krych is a financier and investor, widely regarded as a prominent […]

Prosecutors investigate alleged abuse of power by CBA and ABW

Prosecutors investigate alleged abuse of power by CBA and ABW

The Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin has opened an investigation into, among other issues, the alleged influence peddling in the Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) and the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) during proceedings led by the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice. The case concerns a businessman who was detained by the CBA in 2017 after, as […]

A PR Stunt Over Accountability. Review of Political Prosecution Cases in Poland

A PR Stunt Over Accountability. Review of Political Prosecution Cases in Poland

In the previous Law and Justice (PiS) administration, the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) had been significantly politically compromised. PPO, under the Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro, was the institution which caused the most direct harm to Polish citizens in 2015-2023. It has systemically pursued (often only perceived) political and business opponents, quashed dissent, and silenced critical […]

Kamiński and Wąsik under scrutiny as secret ABW opinions on Lyudmyla Kozlovska emerge

Kamiński and Wąsik under scrutiny as secret ABW opinions on Lyudmyla Kozlovska emerge

The Warsaw prosecutor’s office will assess whether Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik exceeded their authority in the case of Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation. What exactly is the investigation about? Prosecutor’s investigation: The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw has launched an investigation into abuse of power by, among others, officers of the […]

Transnational Repression against Barlyk Mendygaziyev

Transnational Repression against Barlyk Mendygaziyev

The Kazakhstani authorities are weaponising international anti-money laundering mechanisms to prosecute Barlyk Mendygaziyev, his relatives, colleagues and business, not only in Kazakhstan but also in the United States Introduction The case of Barlyk Mendygaziyev, an American-Kazakhstani investor and philanthropist, is a prime example of how authoritarian regimes weaponise the international anti-money laundering (AML/CFT) mechanisms established […]

Urgent concerns regarding human rights violations in Kazakhstan ahead of EU-Central Asia engagement

Urgent concerns regarding human rights violations in Kazakhstan ahead of EU-Central Asia engagement

Her Excellency Kaja KallasHigh Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security PolicyVice-President of the European CommissionEuropean External Action Service 28 February 2025 Subject: Urgent concerns regarding human rights violations in Kazakhstan ahead of EU-Central Asia engagement Your Excellency, On behalf of the human rights monitoring group #ActivistsNotExtremists, we are writing to express […]

Audit of Zbigniew Ziobro’s political cases: Open Dialogue Foundation raises alarm

Audit of Zbigniew Ziobro’s political cases: Open Dialogue Foundation raises alarm

Following the change of government in October 2023, the new administration announced that it would restore the independence of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. A key step in this direction was to be an audit of politically motivated criminal cases initiated between 2015 and 2023. However, the Open Dialogue Foundation warns that the course and results […]

Tough year for human rights. 48 political prisoners in Kazakhstan, political repression and total censorship instead of reforms

Tough year for human rights. 48 political prisoners in Kazakhstan, political repression and total censorship instead of reforms

1. Summary The year 2024 and January 2025 were record-breaking for Kazakhstan in terms of violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Human rights defenders of the monitoring group ActivistsNon-Extremists believe that political rights and freedoms in the country remain merely as declarations: The Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan has officially refused 25 times to […]

Polish Public Prosecutor’s Office: Restoring Independence and Reviewing Politicised Criminal Cases in Poland

Polish Public Prosecutor’s Office: Restoring Independence and Reviewing Politicised Criminal Cases in Poland

This study was prepared as a submission to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law Report 1. Introduction Since assuming power in October 2023, Poland’s new, Civic Coalition-led government has initiated efforts to restore the independence of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which had been compromised under the previous Law and Justice (PiS) administration and Prosecutor […]

The prosecution service discontinued its investigation against Bartosz Kramek after 7 years. The case dossier comprises over 10,000 pages

The prosecution service discontinued its investigation against Bartosz Kramek after 7 years. The case dossier comprises over 10,000 pages

“In the process of prosecuting Bartosz Kramek for his call for civil disobedience against the Law and Justice’s authorities, the prosecution service supervised by Mr Ziobro has gone so far as to commission a professional semiotic study. However, nowhere in the entire text is there any suggestion of overthrowing the government,” the author said clearly. […]

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