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Thousands of people took to the streets to protest against Poland's near-total abortion ban. Some were met with tear gas fired by the police.

1 minute read Warsaw, Jan 29 (efe-epa).- Thousands of people took to the streets of this capital and other Polish cities Friday for a third consecutive night of protests against a ruling by the Constitutional Tribunal that effectively bars abortion. Participants in Warsaw converged on the space in front of the monumental Palace of Culture and Science, Poland’s tallest building. Some carried posters with slogans denouncing the governing right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS), while many disp...

Lessons for Baltics after Soviet aggression thirty years ago 96 January 13, 2020. Commemoration of those killed during Soviet aggression in 1991. / D. Umbrasas/LRT Soviet attempt to crush Baltic independence is now often seen as among the last convulsions of the crumbling totalitarian empire. It also delivered several very important lessons to the Baltics today, writes Tomas Jermalavičius at International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Estonia. Some of those lessons had been almost ...

Several thousand people marched through cities across Poland on Friday in the third day of protests against a near-total ban on abortion since it was put into effect by the conservative government earlier this week.

Poland has experienced a second wave of protests against the country’s almost total ban on abortion.

Protesters took the streets of cities across Poland on Friday for the third consecutive night of rallies against the introduction of strict abortion laws. The legislation that came into force on Wednesday makes it almost impossible to terminate a pregnancy legally except in cases of incest, rape, or when the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother. Protesters defied coronavirus restrictions, marching through the capital Warsaw calling for "freedom, equality, and abortion on demand." While la...

Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek has passed away, leaving a rich comic book legacy. The Polish journalist and comic book artist Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski, better known by his pen name Papcio Chmiel, died on January 21, aged 97. Chmielewski was the author of the highly popular Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek series of comics. “For the people of my generation, who grew up on his comics, an era is ending,” said the country’s president Andrzej Duda on Twitter. It really is the end of an era for Polish comi...

Thousands march through the streets of Warsaw, chanting "freedom, equality, abortion on demand".

Why an abortion law ruling triggered mass protests in Poland By VANESSA GERAOctober 30, 2020 GMT WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is a largely conservative country compared to much of Europe, a place where churches fill up on Sundays and Roman Catholicism is deeply interwoven with the national identity. So why has a court ruling restricting abortion sparked more than a week of angry protests across the central European nation of 38 million? Hundreds of thousands have been pouring into the streets...

The red area shows the municipalities in Poland that have signed the LGBT-free pledge. (Atlas of Hate) The first thread of Poland’s patchwork of so-called “LGBT-free zones” was undone Thursday (28 January) as town councillors voted to withdraw its hateful legislation, activists said. Councillors in Nowa Dęba, a town with some 11,000 residents in the south-eastern county of Tarnobrzeg, voted to withdraw its anti-LGBT+ resolution, according to activists on the ground. Bartosz Staszewski, a...