Poland : polish court quashes order censoring local newspaper

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes a Polish court’s decision to lift a much-criticized order banning a local weekly in the southeastern town of Zamość from covering alleged irregularities in a municipal company. The decision came after 30 local newspaper publishers campaigned for the ban to be lifted.“Censorship has come to an end in the Polish town of Zamość,” the newspaper Tygodnik Zamojski announced on its website after the court, under pressure, ruled in favour

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