Poles protest against government surveillance plans

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Poles protest against government surveillance plans



Thousands of demonstrators took the streets across Poland on Saturday to protest against a government plan to increase surveillance powers.

Critics of the proposed measures say they will undermine citizens’ privacy rights and are demanding the Law and Justice party withdraw the proposals.

“There’s no terrorism in Poland,” said Jaroslaw Kurski, Deputy Editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. “It’s just a false pretext to control citizens, to control people, to reinforce their power.”

“There would be no free media and there are other threats like the internet can be watched over by the secret police,” said another protester. “These are the kind of threats.”

An estimated 10,000 people gathered in front of the Warsaw office of Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, before marching on to the palace of President Andrzej Duda.

The demonstrations are the latest in a series of protests at what critics say are anti-democratic policies being introduced by the right-wing government that was elected last November.

The European Union is assessing whether or not the Polish government’s new laws on the Constitutional Court and media violate EU principles on the rule of law.

If they do then Poland risks losing its EU voting rights.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-01-24

[trogers]

The Polish government foresees the coming security problems in continental Europe and their voting rights in the EU can do nothing.

Good for you, Poland!

[h4rnas]

Last gov was german dogs taking all orders without questions it why germans and euro socialists try to show new polish gov as non democratic dictators what is funny bczu they win elections few month ago and the "Gazeta Wyborcza" is know as private last gov media no one taking them seriously in Poland

IMO anti-democratic is that EU try influence the democratically elected gov in member country

We should be afraid about German democracy and the media In Cologne, 500 women were abused and some raped by immigrants German media reported this information only after 5 days free media until u dont wanna say somthing gainst EU and its policies :>

[RuamRudy]

The Polish government foresees the coming security problems in continental Europe and their voting rights in the EU can do nothing.

Good for you, Poland!

Good for the 10,000 - the more people around the world who protest the pervasive creep of government snooping, the better.

[Rancid]

So Poland goes from being a communist Soviet puppet spying on its people into a fascist US puppet spying on its people.

The people probably thought they'd thrown off the burden of totalitarianism, where all they did was change flavours.