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Secret services raid journalist’s home to arrest ex-minister who blew whistle on tapping

Published on 30 August 2007Read

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Government urged to amend laws that restrict press freedom

Published on 9 August 2007Read

Regional weekly editor told he will have to serve three-month prison sentence

Reporters Without Borders condemns the decision, announced yesterday, that Andrzej Marek, the editor of the regional weekly Wiesci Polickie, will (...)

Published on 26 June 2007 Read

Spanish daily and Catalan feminist face trial in Wroclaw for “defaming Poland”

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a lawsuit that was brought against the Spanish daily El País in the southwestern city of Wroclaw on 5 (...)

Published on 21 June 2007 Read

Court ruling on “decommunization” law lifts threat to press freedom

Read in french Rsf’s article Read in polish Rsf’s article Reporters Without Borders today hailed the Polish constitutional court’s 11 May decision (...)

Published on 15 May 2007 Read

Bad pupil Poland refuses to abolish prison sentences for defamation

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the Polish constitutional court’s decision to uphold article 212 of the criminal code, under which (...)

Published on 2 November 2006 Read

Pressure on German journalists continues in wake of article making fun of Polish president

Reporters Without Borders expressed alarm today at the Polish government’s campaign against the German daily Die Tageszeitung and its reporter (...)

Published on 25 July 2006 Read

Government demands closure of far-right website but fails to probe threats to journalists

The Polish government called on US authorities on 28 May to shut down the far-right Internet website Redwatch, which is run from the United (...)

Published on 29 May 2006 Read

Media climate poses threat to press freedom

Reporters Without Borders today voiced concern about repeated press freedom violations in Poland in recent months, in which journalists have (...)

Published on 7 April 2006 Read

Editor Andrzej Marek freed on order of the constitutional court

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release today of Andrzej Marek, the editor of the regional weekly Wiesci Polickie. The constitutional (...)

Published on 18 January 2006 Read

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Poland - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Poland - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Poland - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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