This may be the last pardon of Andrzej Duda. “He was convicted of questions to the spokesperson”

Ashley Davis30/07/2025

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The process took place behind closed doors. The Court of Appeal maintained the verdict, but exchanged the penalty of restriction of liberty into a fine of 5,000. zloty. The obligation to apologize to the prosecutor was abandoned, but the journalist must cover the costs of the proceedings.

In response to the judgment of Anita Gargas, editor -in -chief of the magazine, published a recording on the website X, in which she asked President Andrzej Duda with a request to pardon Mateusz Teski. She emphasized that in her opinion the journalist should not be punished for performing his work, which is collecting and verifying information. Gargas appealed to the president to make a “last gesture” at the end of his term and pardoned the convicted journalist.

Other journalists of right -wing media also spoke in the same recording, including the president of the Association of Polish Journalists Jolanta Hajdasz, Program Director of WPOLSCE24 Michał Adamczyk, former President of TVP Bronisław Wildstein, publicists Bartłomiej Glaczak, Cezary Gmyz, Wiktor Świetlik, Krzysztof Karnkowski, editor -in -chief of TV Republika Tomasz Sakiewicz, journalists Karol Daroros, journalists Aleksandra Fedorska and director Mariusz Pilis.

“He was convicted only because he directed questions through the spokesperson to the authorities of one of the institutions! The questions concerned some judge at rest. And it was this judge that brought the journalist a criminal trial under Art. 212 of the Penal Code ” – described in Anita Gargas and the rest of the editorial team of its magazine.

Political dimension of the case?

In his speech, Michał Adamczyk suggested that the case of Mateusz Teski is political. According to him, the current authorities are trying to limit freedom of speech and introduce censorship, and convicting a journalist for asking questions to a spokesperson is an example of this. Adamczyk emphasized that the journalistic environment appears to the president with an appeal to pardon the Teski and detain what he described as “lawlessness”.

Tomasz Sakiewicz, editor -in -chief of TV Republika, also referred to the sentence, claiming that the conviction of a journalist with the question of the question is a situation that cannot be justified even in authoritarian systems. Sakiewicz said that the only solution is to withdraw from this judgment as soon as possible, and now only the president has the opportunity to pardon a journalist.

Earlier, the editorial team of “Magazyn Anita Gargas” issued a message in which it was emphasized that Mateusz Teska was convicted only for referring questions to the institution's authorities through a press spokesman. The announcement indicates that this is The judge referred to by questions brought a journalist a criminal trial from Article 212 of the Penal Code.