Eye on Poland

The collection of articles and columns in English from the authors of OKO.press

Michałowice, 27.09.2021. Uchodźcy pod posterunkiem Straży Granicznej

On the border

$20 for 2 cups of hot water. That’s the price of human life. An OKO.press reporter on the refugee trail

Szymon Opryszek 22 November 2021

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On the border

A border guard cries and transports them to the border. An OKO.press reporter on the refugee trail

Szymon Opryszek 15 November 2021

Białoruś, uchodźcy

On the border

„I’m a hunted animal. They took away my humanity.” An OKO.press reporter on the refugee trail

Szymon Opryszek 10 November 2021

ulica w dzielnicy Aksaray w Stambułe

On the border

Istanbul. A smuggler assures me: „It’s 100% guaranteed.” An OKO.press reporter on the refugee trail

Szymon Opryszek 7 November 2021

Palestyńczycy w podlaskim lesie

On the border

Palestinians: „They told us: either Poland, or death here.” Yazidis: „We were wasting away in a camp for 7 years”

Krzysztof Boczek 30 October 2021

Kamil Syller - pomysłodawca akcji

On the border

Green light: this is where refugees can find help. We want to give them hope [INTERVIEW]

Krzysztof Boczek 25 October 2021

uchodźcy na granicy polsko-białoruskiej

On the border

„All night long I hear the wailing of children at the border. Have the courage to come here and look...

Agata Szczęśniak 19 October 2021

Imigrant w lesie na granicy Polski z Białorusią

On the border

„People are already dying, and freezing temperatures are coming”, warns an activist on the Polish border

Maciek Piasecki 14 October 2021

Adam Bodnar, siedzi, głowę podpiera ręką, patrzy w obiektyw

Adam Bodnar

120 civil society organizations against the takeover of the office of the Ombudsman

OKO.press 18 April 2021

Jarosław Kaczyński

media pluralism

Media in Poland protest against the planned ‘advertising tax’. This means bankruptcy for many media and limits to pluralism

Sebastian Klauziński 9 February 2021

Petri Sarvamaa eurodeputowany

rule of law

Chief EP negotiator for the rule of law conditionality: ‘We gave nothing to Kaczyński and Orbán’

Maria Pankowska 31 December 2020

Poland LGBT protests

We get messages saying: “What are you doing, they’re going to hate us because of you”

Marta K. Nowak 9 August 2020

Akcja policji przeciw obrońcom osób LGBT

police brutality

“The policeman pinned her head to the pavement”. Demonstrations in defence of an LGBTQ activist in Poland meet with the...

Marta K. Nowak Hanna Szukalska Bartosz Kocejko 8 August 2020

Bart Staszewski zawiesił tablicę

lgbt free zones

The European Commission intervenes on LGBT-free zones. Its letter could be groundbreaking

Anton Ambroziak 4 June 2020

Jarosław Kaczyński

Poland elects

Presidential elections in Poland: what we know so far

Michał Danielewski 28 May 2020

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human rights

Poland is Europe’s homophobe. No country treats LGBTI citizens worse in the whole EU

Marta K. Nowak 15 May 2020

Ranking Freedom House nie pozostawia złudzeń - Kaczyński i Morawiecki wyprowadzają demokrację z Polski

Democracy in Poland

The National Electoral Commission deprived of its powers in Poland

Mariusz Jałoszewski Agata Szczęśniak 20 April 2020

Jarosław Kaczyński, Julia Przyłębska i Mateusz Morawiecki

Rule of Law

PiS losing the propaganda war over courts in Poland [IPSOS POLL]

Anna Wójcik 20 March 2020

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