Poland - Violating confidentiality of sources, police raid magazine for recordings

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Riding roughshod over journalists' right to protect their sources, prosecutors and intelligence officials raided the Warsaw headquarters of the weekly magazine Wprost on 18 June in an attempt to seize recordings that are embarrassing the ruling party. Wprost caused a political earthquake on 15 June when it published details of what it described as the first a series of conversations between politicians that had been secretly recorded in a chic Warsaw restaurant. The first recording to be (...)

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