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Poland: Official State Secrets Bill

01 November 1994

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The Polish Senate has rejected by 74 votes to 5 a proposal from the Sejm, the lower house, to introduce a secrecy law to limit reporting by journalists. This followed criticism from the journalists association and the Helsinki Committee which said in a statement: "No control is envisaged over what information the government plans to embrace as an official secret". President Lech Walesa, who has the power to veto the Bill, also came out against it "in its current shape". The Sejm can now overturn the Senate's decision by a simple majority leaving President Walesa with the final decision.

Balkan News, 2.10.94 & 16.10.94; see Statewatch, vol 4 no 5.

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