COURT'S DECISION ON LYUDMYLA KOZLOVSKA THE ACTIVIST SPEAKS TO PARTY POLITICIANS. SHE GETS A REPLY.

• , 6 September 2019 • Arkadiusz Jastrzębski, Wirtualna Polska

Lyudmyla Kozlovska, the president of the , has won her second battle against the Law and Justice Party, the ruling party in . A Provincial Administrative Court has reversed the administrative decision refusing to grant her the right to stay in Poland. Joachim Brudziński, a former Minister for the Interior and Administration, commented on the matter. Lyudmyla Kozlovska disagreed with the decisions by the Mazovian Province Governor and the Head of the Office for Foreigners, refusing her a resident permit for Poland. The matter was dealt with by the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw, which reversed the decision. "According to the court, the materials in a secret opinion issued by the Internal Security Agency (ABW) were very general, laconic and insufficient for a refusal decision," the Open Dialogue Foundation said in a statement. Lyudmyla Kozlovska herself used social media to draw the attention of Law and Justice Party politicians to the court's judgment and asked them why they became silent after the court's decision. "There was the fake news with Moldovan and Kazakh propaganda about myself, my family and my activity, and now, after another court judgment, there is only silence," she wrote, mentioning , , Joachim Brudziński, and . "I have not changed my mind about them even a little bit after this judgment. I say to them: start 'fighting', as soon as possible, for democracy in all those countries where support for them is the strongest," Joachim Brudziński, a Law and Justice Party MEP and a former Minister for the Interior and Administration, replied after a few hours.

A second victory Before the latest judgment, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, the president of the Open Dialogue Foundation, was deleted from the Schengen Information System. Poland had no other choice after Belgium granted her a resident permit. Kozlovska says she has become a target for the Law and Justice Party camp after she and her husband, Bartosz, became involved in 2017 in protests against the changes in the Polish judiciary.

Link: https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/sad-o-ludmile-kozlowskiej-dzialaczka-wzywa-politykow-pis-jest- reakcja-6421464195090049a

The original title: „Sąd o Ludmile Kozłowskiej. Działaczka wzywa polityków PiS. Jest reakcja”