“Polish authorities are using their powers to terrorize people instead of to protect basic rights,” said one researcher.
A woman holds a banner while demonstrating outside a police station during"Solidarity with Joanna" protest in Krakow, Poland, on July 25, 2023. Rallies were held in Polish cities after alleged police hostility against a woman named Joanna, who took an abortion pill.
“Polish authorities’ ruthless pursuit of people trying to get or provide basic health care can only be described as a witch hunt,” Hillary Margolis, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, . “The government is misusing police and courts to advance its anti-rights agenda, taking its abusive policies into private homes, hospital rooms, and doctors’ offices.”
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