🔴 Yes, six years of our constant struggle were needed to lift the Polish entry ban imposed on me for political reasons as an alleged ‘threat to national security’. This was done by the then-ruling Law and Justice government on the basis of the classified opinion of the Internal Security Agency. Now, I’m finally allowed to return to #Poland.

🔴 Yes, Law and Justice party definitely knows how to abuse power and drive you into financial exclusion, even if you’ve obtained several favourable court rulings. During the last 6 years, the Polish Office for Foreigners and Internal Security Agency (#ABW) kept the ban despite 6 court verdicts (!) finding it unjustified and groundless.

🔴 Yes, FATF and EU Commission have regarded these kind of cases of financial exclusion and abuse of AML/CFT laws as ‘unintended consequences’. It is not true: it was an intended, coordinated abuse of AML/CFT laws by then-ruling Law and Justice government and other authoritarian regimes for transnational repression against ODF as a human rights organisation and myself as its leader.

🔴 Yes, when the Law and Justice party was in power, ABW prepared a classified dossier based on alleged 'evidence' that my stay as a foreigner on the Polish territory 'threatens the state security'. Today ABW - freed from the political influence of PiS - officially recognises that no such evidence exists against me. I believe it is crucial to declassify dossier based on alleged 'evidence' against me to show how regimes abuse security measures enjoying the lack of accountability/remedies in the AML/CFT laws.

🔴 Yes, after the final court judgement that required the Office for Foreigners

in Poland to remove me from the blacklist, we’ve eventually received an official confirmation which states that I can now enter. According to lawyers and human rights activists dealing with foreigners, this was the very first time a court in Poland issued such an explicit order when the state security issue was at play.

🔴 No, the Law and Justice party (#PiS) is no longer in power. But this doesn’t mean that the problems of the Open Dialogue Foundation, our team and family members are over. Already 7-year long politically motivated tax audits aimed at ODF and our company ruined our business, and the criminal case against Bartosz Kramek as well as many other victims of political repression are ongoing.

🔴Yes, even with the loss of power, the system built by Law and Justice Ministers Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik continues to live, poisoning the lives of the opressed for the last 7 years and requires complete dismantling. At the same time, those responsible have not yet been held accountable for attempting to destroy i.a. our foundation in retaliation for the defence of the #RuleOfLaw in Poland - an abuse previously unheard of in the EU.

That is why we still need your support. 🧡