Polish defence minister seeks charges against journalist Tomasz Piątek could face prison in case alleging exposé amounted to ‘coercion’, ‘insult’

by International Press Institute | Jul 12, 2017 | News, Poland |

Polish prosecutors should reject a request by the country’s defence ministry to prosecute an investigative journalist whose recent book outlined alleged links between the defence minister’s associates, Russian intelligence services and organised crime, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today.

The ministry last week asked the military department of Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office to investigate Gazeta Wyborcza journalist Tomasz Piątek for “violence or illegal threats” and “public insults” against a “constitutional authority of the Republic of Poland” over his book “Macierewicz and his secrets”, which focuses on Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz.

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