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 […]
Dominik Tarczyński has apologized to the Open Dialogue Foundation and its President Lyudmyla Kozlovska for his defamatory remarks, in which he accused them of laundering Russian money. The MEP published the apology post on the platform X just before midnight on 3 January. “This cowardly apology cannot repair the harm and damage we have suffered […]
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). […]
‘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. […]
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 Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin discontinued the investigation against the founder of the Open Dialogue Foundation engaged in supporting defenders of democracy. For five years, Bartosz Kramek was prosecuted by a PiS prosecutor, Ziobro’s nominee, Jerzy Ziarkiewicz. Jerzy Ziarkiewicz is the discredited head of the Lublin Regional Prosecutor’s Office, who for years blocked investigations […]
“One year after the change of power, yet hundreds of people are still being prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office on charges tailored by the Law and Justice party,” says Bartosz Kramek, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Open Dialogue Foundation, in an interview with naTemat. This includes organisers of local Women’s Strike, participants in […]
Several NGOs, Radio Wolna PL (Free Poland), Themis Judges Association and more than 30 public figures have submitted a public appeal to the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar. The signatories draw attention to the need for a “fair, transparent and comprehensive review of politically motivated criminal proceedings” initiated during Zbigniew Ziobro’s days as Prosecutor General. […]
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 […]
The Law and Justice (PiS) losing power did not result in an automatic re-establishment of the rule of law and in the prosecution enforcing accountability vis-à-vis the perpetrators. Even within the prosecution, the Ziobro system persists and resists change. The Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) had requested the National Public Prosecutor’s Office to review criminal proceedings […]
An enforcement bailiff ordered the seizure of the bank account of Maciej Wąsik, a member of the European Parliament from the Law and Justice Party (PiS). In this way, the final court decision was enforced, obliging Wąsik to pay PLN 30,000 as compensation for the violation of the personal rights of the Open Dialogue Foundation […]
An enforcement bailiff ordered the seizure of the bank account of Maciej Wąsik, a member of the European Parliament from the Law and Justice Party (PiS). In this way, the final court decision was enforced, obliging Wąsik to pay PLN 30,000 as compensation for the violation of the personal rights of the Open Dialogue Foundation […]
Maciej Wąsik lost a similar case to the Open Dialogue Foundation, but – contrary to the court’s judgement – he did not post an apology. Now it is time for the resigning Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Witold Waszczykowski to make a decision. Failure to be re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament elections is not […]
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 […]
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 […]
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