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Poland: Poles on Fascist Black List

Thursday, June 1st, 2006 @ 06:25 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Poland
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Ethnicity, Gender, Human Rights, Internet & Telecoms, LGBT, Protest, Racism, Youth, International Relations

The beatroot comments on the Polish component of an international fascist organization's black list posted online: “Krakow’s students, feminists, gays and academics have been put on the internet “black list” of fascist organization ‘Blood and Honour'.”

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