Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-16-Speech-1-072"
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"en.20060116.14.1-072"2
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"Mr President, I should like to draw the attention of the House to recent and repeated manifestations of intolerance in my home country, Poland, which frequently take the form of incitements to violence against people on the basis of their sexual orientation. I should also like to alert the House to the state authorities’ failure to respond appropriately to these and other displays of homophobia. Examples include the banning of Equality Marches in Warsaw and Poznań, and the fact that the measures provided for in Polish law have not been taken against groups inciting others to intolerance and to violence against people who promote equal rights for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation.
We are faced with the authorities’ acceptance of what amounts to political thuggery directed at the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities. On 13 January 2006, a court in Elbląg opened proceedings against Robert Biedroń, the head of the Campaign against Homophobia. The public prosecutor’s office has charged Mr Biedroń with insulting Catholics, even though he has stressed that he never intended to insult Catholicism or to put it on a par with fascism. It is worth emphasising that the same public prosecutor’s office refused to institute proceedings following the insulting references to homosexuals contained in an article in the publication
in which it was stated that ‘homosexuality is a disease and a threat to the family."@en1
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"Nasz Dziennik"1
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