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Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045
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(Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday December 17 2016, @11:37AM
Its not just freedom of the press that is getting reduced now in Poland: Since the paranoid swivel-eyed PiS conservatives are in government and have absolute majority in parliament (sounds FAMILIAR??!?), they also:
2016-10-06 Poland's parliament rejects near-total ban on abortion after protests [theguardian.com]
Poland has strict abortion laws; only in 3 cases a. rape, b. mother's life is in danger, c. foetus is deformed and will die soon. The government tried, but failed, to pass a law that only in case b. mother's life is in danger, abortion would be allowed.
2016-10-24 Polish abortion law protesters march against proposed restrictions [theguardian.com]
Extremely conservative catholic Poland makes an even more limited abortion law; if the foetus is deformed and will die soon after birth, it must be brought to term against the mother's wishes so that it can be christened and buried.
So only allowed in case of a. rape and b. mother's life is in danger.
2016-11-14 Poland exhumes president Lech Kaczyński's remains [theguardian.com]
Poland's president's brother's body dug up to prove that somehow the "Russians did it", when the government of Poland visited Smolensk in dense fog despite weather warnings and their plane crashed.
2016-12-14 Poland restricts public meetings [theguardian.com]
Freedom of assembly is voted out; the Polish government probably had a (for them) important reason to forbid complete freedom of assembly, namely to make sure that on the day of remembrance of the president's brother's plane crash, only the Catholic church and his own government could hold manifestations. So that no dissent could be heard on that day. It still sounds a bit stupid to me to write a law for that, though. "You have freedom of assembly, except on the following days, because then I'll put you in jail if you disrupt my important meetings"
2016-12-17 Polish government tries to keep the budget secret [theguardian.com]
To be honest I didn't 100% understand this article, they held the budget vote in another room of the parliament building so that it could not be recorded or made public??