The government is setting up a fresh commission. It is to analyse “mechanisms of repression” in the times of the Law and Justice

news.5v.pl 3 months ago

Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs announced the appointment of a committee to clarify the mechanisms of repression against civilian society organisations and social activists under the Law and Justice. As Adam Bodnar explained, the body is to examine methods of limiting constitutional freedoms.

The head of the Justice Department has stated that the committee consists of 11 members. Her president became Sylvia Gregorczyk-Abram.

– We imagine that the committee will deal with subjects related to freedom of association, the organisation of assemblies, freedom of speech. It will deal with public media activities and various restrictions in the context of legal meetings," he pointed out Adam Bodnar.

The Minister at the press conference added that the body should besides examine surveillance mechanisms and the legitimacy of disciplinary and criminal proceedings against civil society.

New repressive committee. I want 3 reports prepared.

The Commission is expected to prepare recommendations to the authorities over the course of the year "to guarantee that specified cases do not happen in the future", Bodnar added. The organ is to prepare at this time three reports. The first will concern public media.

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Apart from Gregorczyk-Abram, the commission will include: Paweł Murawski, King Dagmar Siadlak, Mikołaj Małacki, Clementyna Suchanow, Krzysztof Podemski, Andrzej Krajewski, Tomasz Grzyb, Katarzyna Antoniak, Dobrosław Rola and Magdalena Dropek.

– We have seen a large request to deal with matters of exploitation, abuse of power, creating bad mechanisms for the persecution of citizens. From spectacular situations in Warsaw, to persecution of people for demonstrating somewhere in a distant village – commented the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs Tomasz Siemoniak.