Pologne - Journalists held while covering political protest

Reporters sans frontières

Arrests occured during a post-election demonstration. Following local elections on 16 November whose results remain unknown because of vote-count problems, a group of activists entered State Electoral Commission headquarters. The demonstrators demanded the resignations of commission members and the scheduling of new elections. Police ejected the protesters. In the process, journalist Jan Pawlicki of TV Republika and his colleague, photojournalist Tomasz Gzell of Polish Press Agency were (...)

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