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Thousands protest in Warsaw in huge anti-government demonstration

Addressing thousands of people in Warsaw’s Castle Square at the conclusion of the march, Tusk said: “Why did half a million Poles take to the streets today? Because we feel that for years Poland has been ruled by people who cannot love, who have falsified the word solidarity and who take away our freedom every day, piece by piece." Paweł Supernak/PAP

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators packed into the streets of Warsaw on Sunday in the one of the biggest anti-government protests the capital has seen in recent years.

Sunday anti-government march is not grassroots event says PM

Mateusz Morawiecki has said that a huge march in Warsaw led by Poland's largest opposition party Civic Platform (PO) against the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government is not a spontaneous civil protest but has been organised by "old foxes" in Polish politics.

Tusk says size of march shows how many are ready 'to fight for Poland'

Poland's opposition leader Donald Tusk told a vast crowd of anti-government demonstrators in the centre of Warsaw on Sunday that their march showed the government “how many of us are ready to fight for democracy.”

No Polish soldiers injured Kosovo clashes

No members of Poland's Nato contingent in Kosovo were injured in violent clashes with Serbian demonstrators, the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces has reported.

Court slaps fines on demonstrators for staging mock execution of MEPs

Two organisers of a 2017 demonstration that featured a mock hanging of some Polish members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were given PLN 9,000 (EUR 1,960) fines by a court in Krakow on Friday.

Thousands to attend June 4 march says Tusk

Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland's main opposition party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), has said that thousands of people will demonstrate in Warsaw on June 4 to show the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), its leader and their entire team that "their time is coming to an end."

Pro-choice activists acquitted after protest in cathedral

A group of 32 protesters who interrupted a mass in a Polish cathedral with a pro-abortion rights demonstration have been acquitted of disturbance of a religious act.

Poland’s ombudsman wants to overturn conviction from times of PRL

Poland's civil rights ombudsman wants the conviction of a man found guilty of throwing stones at police during a 1982 demonstration against martial law overturned.

Russian envoy should have heeded warnings, PM says

Russia’s ambassador to Poland could have avoided a dousing in red paint during a ceremony at a Soviet military memorial in Warsaw, if he had followed the advice of the Polish Foreign Ministry to avoid the event, Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said.

Tusk calls on people “to sweep away” government because of media law

Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland’s main opposition party, has told thousands of people in central Warsaw rallying against a new media law that they can “sweep away” the current “power”, if they work in solidarity.

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