Polish Court Rejects Case Against ‘LGBT-Free Zones’ Activist

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Bartosz Staszewski, LGBT activist and creator of the photography LGBT Free Zones Project, poses for a photo inside his home on August 6, 2020, in Warsaw, Poland. © 2020 Omar Marques/Getty Images A court in the Polish city of Rzeszów has thrown out a case against Bartosz Staszewski, an LGBT rights activist who was being sued by the Niebylec commune for defamation. Niebylec, a village in southeastern Poland, is home to about 10,000 people. In 2019, along with dozens of communities across Poland, it passed a resolution to “stop LGBT ideology.” In response to this onslaught…

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