For many months now, we have been seeing an highly destructive situation for the functioning of the state and the national life of the current government. They concern all spheres: political, economic, justice and, above all, trampling on the regulation of law. In each of these ranges, the state apparatus is utilized to intimidate or destruct people from public life and to effort to penalize people who are members of the widely understood opposition.
We consider it peculiarly dangerous to effort to reduce freedom of expression, to effort to introduce paracensal, to effort to destruct independent media. The usage of justice to suppress freedom of expression is peculiarly dangerous for the functioning of democracy in Poland. There have been more of these cases recently, and as the latest and clearly exceeding the limit, we believe that the prison conviction of the well-known anti-communist opposition activist Adam Borowski was expected to be a slander by the ruling camp MP.
These actions link Poland from the times after 13 December 1981 with the time after 13 December 2023 with a sinister sign of the buckle of past which binds that totalitarian government with the current power and that dimension of injustice with the present.
We accept the judgement in the Adam Borowski case with outrage, but at the same time with the awareness of the consequences of specified proceedings in the process of dismantling democracy. alternatively of caring for the safety of an increasingly threatened country from the outside, the current government focuses solely on defending its clumsy and harmful power.
We call on the rulers to abandon this destructive activity and the public to constantly monitor and brand any manifestations of suppressing freedom of expression. We ask the president of the Republic of Poland to apply the law of grace to Adam Borowski, which would be an action in the interests of the state.
For the Academic civilian Clubs:
prof. dr hab. Stanisław Mikołajczak – president of AKO Poznań
Professor Grzegorz Kucharczyk – Vice-President of AKO Poznań
Prof. dr hab. inż. Artur Świergiel – president of AKO Warsaw
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Karpiński – Vice-President of AKO Warsaw
Prof. Dr. Jan Tadeusz Duda – Vice-President of AKO Kraków
Prof. Dr. Michał Seweryński – president of AKO Łódź
Prof. Dr. Piotr Czauderna – AKO Gdańsk
Prof. dr hab. inż. Bolesław Pochopień – president of AKO Katowice
Prof. Dr. Mirosław Szumiło – president of AKO Lublin
Dr. Prof. UWM Selim Chazbiewicz – president of AKO Olsztyn
Prof. dr hab. Mariusz Orion Jędrysek – president of AKO Wrocław
Dr hab. prof. US Piotr Briks – president of AKO Szczecin
Poznań... Szczecin, 21 January 2026.