December 2016 Polish protests
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| Date | 16–20 December 2016 | ||
| Location |  Poland biggest cities |
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| Causes | Parliamentarian crisis, regulations limiting the press and media to passage with all media equipement such as cameras on all corridors in Sejm buildings | ||
| Methods | Civil resistance, demonstrations, protest marches, picketing | ||
| Status | Ongoing | ||
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Protesters
December 2016 Polish protests against law limiting of freedom of the press in Sejm buildings and parliamentarian crisis have occurred in biggest cities of Poland, including in the capital city, Warsaw.
On 16 December 2016 during the session of Polish parliament, the Sejm, opposition deputy Michał Szczerba (from Civic Platform party) came to the stage with the card which read "#WolneMediawSejmie" (hashtag "Free press in Sejm") and attempted to fix it to the rostrum. After warnings, Marshal of the Sejm, Marek Kuchciński, excluded him from debate for disturbance and announced a break. As planned before, opposition deputies started the occupation of the podium and the plenary hall. Subsequently, the MPs of ruling party, Law and Justice, moved the meeting to the Hall of Columns, where the deputies voted on, among other topics, the budget for 2017. A number of MPs from the opposition who still occupied the plenary hall did not participate in the voting, and the vote count was done by show of hands.
First groups of protesters appeared in front of the parliament before locking the plenary hall in the protest against restrictions for press in Sejm buildings. It included dozens of journalist from mainstream Polish media, including from Gazeta Wyborcza, Newsweek Polska and TVN24. The protest was supported by many people associated with the opposition, including Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Civic Platform leader Grzegorz Schetyna, and Modern leader Ryszard Petru.
On 16 and 17 December protests were held in many of big cities in Poland including Wrocław, Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań, Szczecin, Katowice, Olsztyn, Białystok, Lublin, Kielce and Płock.
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