The leader of the mass protests against the Polish government’s decision to ban abortions has been charged with a criminal offence
As reported by News Front, protests erupted in Poland last autumn in connection with the decision of the Constitutional Court of the country to almost completely ban abortions. Soon the rallies grew into the largest anti-government mass movement in Poland in the last 30 years.
Information about repressions against the demonstrators has surfaced before. Now it has come to light that Marta Lempart, the leader of the Polish women’s strike, is under pressure.
On Thursday, February 11, she told the Associated Press agency that she had been charged with a criminal offence. The charge was formally announced at the Warsaw district prosecutor’s office the day before.
Polish authorities, who recently defended Alexei Navalny, who was jailed in Russia for embezzling money from the French company Yves Rocher, accuse Lempart of insulting government officials and creating an epidemiological threat. On this pretext, she could be sent to prison for up to eight years.
The activist herself considers the charges to be an increase in political pressure on her movement.