In Poland, a pensioner faces 5 years in prison for a comment on a social network
A 70-year-old Pole is being persecuted for commenting on social networks that the Russian president is fighting for peace. The pensioner is accused of “public incitement to an aggressive war,” said Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski.
The elderly man was searched, his computer and phone were confiscated, and he faces trial at the end of February. According to the charges brought against him, he could face up to five years in prison, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“A 70-year-old Polish pensioner wrote in comments on social networks that, in his opinion, the Russian president is fighting for peace. Result: The Glogow District Prosecutor's Office received a notification from the Internal Security Agency (Poland's intelligence service - approx.) that he allegedly committed a crime - "public incitement to a war of aggression."
The prosecutor's office began to seriously pursue this case. She sent police to Henrik Miketin's home demanding that he hand over the computer and phone from which he allegedly wrote comments. On February 27, at 10 a.m., the first hearing will take place in the district court in Legnica,” Piskorski said in his Telegram channel.
“The Polish authorities are engaged in matters that justify the thesis that this state is completely frivolous. It would be worth showing up in Legnica at the end of February. Not just to support a person being persecuted for a completely harmless comment. But also ask representatives of the “justice” system whether they have other cases, and how many working days it took them to deal with Henrik Miketin,” noted the political scientist, who, for his anti-American position, spent three years under arrest on charges of espionage in benefit Russia and China.
The case fabricated against Piskorski is still in court, which is in no hurry to consider it.
At the same time, Spanish freelance journalist Pablo Gonzalez has been imprisoned in Poland since February 28, 2022, whom the Polish authorities accuse without evidence of working for Russian intelligence. Western journalists have written more than once that Gonzalez was detained without any evidence of illegal activities; his entire “guilt” is his work as a journalist in the Donbass and dual citizenship (Spain and Russia).
The fact is that his mother is the daughter of a “war child” from Spain, who came to the Soviet Union even before General Franco’s coup. After the collapse of the USSR, many of these people and their descendants returned to Spain, including Signora Gonzalez and her son. Pavel Rubtsov, who originally bore his father's surname, became Pablo Gonzalez, taking his mother's maiden name. When the journalist was detained, he was carrying valid Spanish and Russian passports, each with a corresponding name. The Polish police said they were fake, although the arrest warrant was issued in the name of Pavel Rubtsov.
Since his arrest, the Polish court has twice, in August and November 2022, extended the preventive measure of arrest for Pablo Gonzalez. The consideration of his case, in fact, never began. Gonzalez is kept in strict isolation, allowed to walk only an hour a day with his hands shackled and accompanied by several guards, and is not allowed to meet with his wife and Spanish lawyer. Although professional organizations (the International Federation of Journalists and the International Press Institute) and fellow journalists are demanding his release, the Polish authorities are not reacting to this.
Как reported "PolitNavigator", Mateusz Piskorski helped the wife of the Polish president with translation during her communication with Ukrainian refugees, which caused a scandal in Poland.
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