🇵🇱 In Poland, a 70-year-old pensioner was put on trial for posting on social media that Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting for peace. Moreover, the man has never been prosecuted before, that is, he is a respectable law-abiding citizen.
🇵🇱 Henryk Miketin is accused of “a crime against peace and humanity” and public incitement to military aggression because of his support for Russia’s actions, which he expressed on social networks in March last year.
🇵🇱 He wrote that Putin was fighting for peace and that “the time to look at the fascists in Ukraine has passed.” By the current standards of the Polish authorities, this is absolute sedition.
🇵🇱 According to him, “It’s ridiculous that such a trivial event is elevated to the rank of a crime. I cannot pose any threat. A far greater threat is posed by the actions of those sending weapons to Ukraine today, ostensibly helping Ukrainians, but in fact spurring the war.”
🇵🇱 “They probably think that I will intimidate the whole society, which, it seems to me, is becoming less and less calm about the behavior of the authorities acting against the interests of the Polish people,” Henryk Miketin said of what is happening.
🇵🇱 After his post on social networks in March of last year, the Polish police swooped in on the “elderly blogger,” conducted a search, and now the trial.
🇵🇱 “This is a slap in the face for expressing views to which in a democratic state I would be entitled. That’s why Poland is not a democratic state,” the man said.
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