Act on the Institute of National Remembrance
The Act on the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (
The 1998 Act's Article 55
The 2007 Amendment dealt with lustrations conducted in Poland.
The 2018 Amendment added an Article 55a, which seeks to defend the "good name" of Poland and its people against unfounded accusations of complicity in the Holocaust.[2] Also added by the 2018 Amendment was an Article 2a, addressing crimes against "Polish citizens" by "Ukrainian nationalists", which has been seen as an act of exclusion against ethnic minorities.[3] Following an international outcry, defamation of Poland and the Polish people through unfounded accusations of complicity in the Holocaust, under Article 55a, was amended to a civil offense that can be tried in civil courts.[3] Article 2a was appealed by Polish President Andrzej Duda and was found to be unconstitutional by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, which declared it null and void.[4]
1998 act
The Institute of National Remembrance was established by a Sejm Act of 18 December 1998.[5]
Article 55
The Act's article 55 criminalized "public denial, against the facts, of
In 1999 a University of Opole history professor, Dariusz Ratajczak, was tried under Article 55 for his Holocaust denial, was found guilty, and was sentenced to a year's probation.[8][9]
2006 amendment
A 2006 amendment to the law, passed by the Law and Justice government, was dubbed the "Lex Gross" as it targeted
2007 amendment
The 2007 amendment dealt with lustrations conducted in Poland.
2018 amendment
The Amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance of 2018 is a Polish law that penalizes
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- ^ "About the IPN". ipn.gov.pl. Institute of National Remembrance. Archived from the original on 2007-09-13. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ^ "Obwieszczenie Marszałka Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 2016 r. w sprawie ogłoszenia jednolitego tekstu ustawy o Instytucie Pamięci Narodowej – Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu" (PDF). Dziennik Ustaw (in Polish). No. Poz. 1575. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
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