Journalist released after imprisonment for libel
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Imprisoned for libel, a Polish journalist is released New York, January 26, 2006-A Polish journalist convicted in a rare criminal libel prosecution has been freed two days into his prison term after the country’s top constitutional court ordered the suspension of his sentence, according to news […]
Journalist begins 3-month jail term for criminal libel
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: POLAND: Journalist begins 3-month jail term for criminal libel New York, January 17, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists today called the jailing of a Polish journalist for criminal libel an affront to Polish democracy and called on the Polish president to pardon him. “Poland […]
IPI urges repeal of prison sentence against editor for libel
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI letter to President Lech Kaczynski and Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro: H.E. Lech Kaczynski President of Poland Kancelaria Prezydenta RP ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 48 22) 695 12 53 H.E. Zbigniew Ziobro Minister of Justice Ministry of Justice Al. Ujazdowskie 11 00-950 Warsaw Poland […]
IPI concerned about legal actions aimed at intimidating “Polityka”‘s staff
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI letter to Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski: His Excellency Aleksander Kwasniewski President of the Republic of Poland Office of the President Ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 4822) 695 12 53 Vienna, 19 December 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, […]
IPI worried about recent civil legal actions against the media
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI letter to President Aleksander Kwasniewski: H.E. Aleksander Kwasniewski President of the Republic of Poland Kancelaria Prezydenta RP ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 48 22) 695 12 53 Vienna, 29 September 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives […]
IPI concerned at treatment of “Rzeczpospolita” editor-in-chief
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI letter to President Aleksander Kwasniewski: H.E. Aleksander Kwasniewski President of the Republic of Poland Kancelaria Prezydenta RP ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 48 22) 695 12 53 Vienna, 20 September 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists […]
Journalist faces prison for refusing to reveal sources
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has condemned a court order requiring Maciej Mikolajczyk, an investigative journalist with the satirical weekly “Nie”, to hand over his computer hard disk by 5 September 2005. On 31 August, Mikolajczyk was summoned to the Warsaw Prosecutor’s Office and told by Prosecutor Beata Kaszewska to produce the disk or risk a prison […]
Police arrest Indymedia contributor and accuse him of assaulting an officer
(RSF/IFEX) – On 16 May 2005, Grzegorz Prujszyk, a student contributor to the Indymedia Poland website, was arrested and mistreated by police after filming an anti-war demonstration in Warsaw. Police arrested Prujszyk as the16 May rally was beginning to break up. He was wearing an orange waistcoat with the word “Press” marked on it. Police […]
Radio editor faces possible suspension over live debate about the Pope
(RSF/IFEX) – Management of the state-run Polskie Radio have announced their decision to suspend editor Pawel Sito after he staged a live radio debate in which some young listeners criticised the late Pope John Paul II. The journalist’s dismissal is still being discussed within the broadcast company. Sito, editor of Radio BIS, was suspended on […]
Reporter for “Poland Monthly” magazine target of judicial harassment campaign
(WPFC/IFEX) – The following is a 21 April 2005 WPFC press release: Reston, USA, April 21, 2005 – The World Press Freedom Committee made a Fund Against Censorship grant to Poland-based US journalist Preston Smith, a reporter for the English-language Poland Monthly magazine, who is the target of a campaign of judicial harassment, including a […]
Publisher of weekly magazine fined
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI press release: Vienna, 26 January 2005 IPI Condemns Fine of Polish Publisher Jerzy Urban According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, on 25 January, a court in Warsaw fined Jerzy Urban, publisher of the Nie […]
Prosecutor requests suspended prison sentence for “offensive” editorial about the pope
(RSF/IFEX) – The prosecution of satirical newspaper editor Jerzy Urban for an editorial about Pope John Paul II could set “a dangerous precedent for a European Union member state,” RSF has warned. On 14 January 2005, a Warsaw prosecutor requested a 10-month suspended prison sentence and a fine equivalent to 5,000 euros (approx. US$6,500) for […]
Publisher and editor faces criminal charges
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI letter to President Aleksander Kwasniewski: H.E. Aleksander Kwasniewski President of the Republic of Poland Kancelaria Prezydenta RP ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 48 22) 695 12 53 Vienna, 28 September 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives […]
IFJ voices concern over number of legal actions against reporters and independent media
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: Poland’s Disgrace: How Legal Actions Threaten to “Put Free Journalism Under Lock and Key” The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists today warned that a battery of legal actions against reporters and independent media in Poland amounted to an […]
Journalist sentenced to three months in prison for defamation; RSF calls for presidential pardon
(RSF/IFEX) – On 22 June 2004, the Warsaw Supreme Court upheld a three-month prison sentence against Andrzej Marek, editor-in-chief of local weekly “Wiesci Polickie”, for libelling a local official. “There can be no justification in a democracy for the imprisonment of a journalist for defamation,” said RSF in a letter to President Aleksander Kwasniewski. “This […]
Journalist sentenced to one month in prison for libel
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a 7 May 2004 IPI letter to Minister of Justice Marek Sadowski: H.E. Marek Sadowski Minister of Justice Ministry of Justice Al. Ujazdowskie 11 00-950 Warszawa Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 48 22) 621 55 40 / 621 49 86 Vienna, 7 May 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), […]