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CATEGORY: Poland
Mapping Media Freedom: Two years of uncovering attacks on Europe’s press
Mapping Media Freedom launched to the public on 24 May 2014. Two years on, the platform has verified over 1,800 media violations
Poland’s “political cleansing” of journalists
Poland has been all about the “good change” since November 2015. The phrase goes back to a campaign video produced in May 2015 for PiS
15 June: Illiberal democracy: the future of freedom
Europe was a bastion of hope for more than a million refugees last year. What brought them? A hunger for safety and security? Dreams of freedom?
Poland: Scholar questioned over claim Poles killed more Jews than they did Germans during World War II
A Polish prosecutor has interrogated Jan Gross, a Polish-American professor of history at Princeton University
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
World Poetry Day: Seamus Heaney’s love of language
It’s the 17th annual World Poetry Day, which was first declared by Unesco in 1999 to help meet the world’s aesthetic needs by promoting the reading and writing of poetry
Poland: Challenging official history of the Holocaust could see you branded a “traitor”
In Poland today, history and discussion appears to be an inconvenience for the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which is introducing legislation to punish the use of the term “Polish death camps”.
Swift changes to media landscape set Poland further down the partisan road
Poland has undergone rapid changes since the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) won the overall majority in the Sejm
European democracies fail to live up to their own standards on freedom of the press
Freedom of the press has always been a pretty reliable litmus test for the state of any democracy. However, as Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project shows