“This is already an extreme overreach that does not fit within the bounds of democracy,” Tomasz Sakiewicz said on TV Republika, pointing out that the station and its journalists are facing growing pressure, including media, court, and prosecutorial actions. Sakiewicz explicitly referred, among other things, to attempts to revoke the station’s broadcasting license, numerous lawsuits, and actions intended simply to intimidate the newsroom.
Tomasz Sakiewicz, speaking on TV Republika, raised the alarm about intensifying actions directed at the station and its journalists.
“It appears that this level of attack on democracy in Poland is increasingly affecting TV Republika,” he stated during a program hosted by Miłosz Kłeczek, recalling that the newsroom had disclosed information allegedly showing that “hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to overthrow the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.”
“We have evidence clearly showing that organizations involved in the overthrow of that government were also attacking TV Republika on various levels: media, judicial, and prosecutorial,” Sakiewicz said. He also pointed to the sources of funding for these actions. “Funds were allocated, for example, from American taxpayers, but also from George Soros to finance organizations that were destroying TV Republika,” he added.
Sakiewicz went on to list further situations the newsroom is facing:
“Planning to kill our journalist, attempts to revoke our license, attempts to imprison or convict, or in fact the conviction of Tomek Duklanowski, around one hundred lawsuits filed against TV Republika journalists,”
he said.
He also drew attention to what he described as the “humiliation of our journalists”:
“Such ostracism, which we saw, for example, in the Sejm from Speaker Czarzasty himself… Of course, I do not blame him, because right now, this entire part of the ruling coalition linked to German or Russian lobbying is doing everything it can to save the Speaker. His days are rather numbered, but indeed the attempt at a counterattack, striking at TV Republika and Gazeta Polska… What Minister Sikorski did, speaking about Gazeta Polska in a humiliating way without referring to specifics… I think Minister Sikorski will soon also have to address specific matters concerning himself, but we will have to wait a little longer for that.”
He added:
“Attempting to defend the Speaker by organizing attacks on our media and wanting to kill our journalists or put them in prison, or revoke our license, is already an extreme overreach that does not fall within the bounds of democracy.”