Stand with Wojciech Sadurski: his freedom of expression is (y)ours
In May of this year, we published an open letter in support of Professor Wojciech Sadurski, against whom the Polish ruling party and its allies brought several legal proceedings to silence his robust criticism of the government. It was signed by almost 800 colleagues, who joined in the expression of support and solidarity. The Washington Post published a subsequent piece by Sadurski himself about the capricious and punitive litigation against him, and Euractiv published our follow-up call for action by the EU institutions in his defence. The campaign generated some political traction in the Netherlands, where the social liberal junior government party D66 asked parliamentary questions about his case (see here and here). Yet while the Dutch government underlined the central importance of free speech in a liberal democracy, it avoided the explicit request to address Sadurski’s case through political means, either bilaterally or in the EU setting, on the basis that a government should not interfere in a pending court case that it has not itself brought.
Hence despite the publicity and solidarity expressed, the situation remains unchanged: three cases are still pending against Sadurski. He will stand trial in the first case on Wednesday 27 November in Warsaw (see here for background information). Just days before the trial, we write to seek renewal of your support for Wojciech Sadurski, and for your help in keeping the PiS strategy of coordinated legal harassment against him, and the threat of a criminal conviction and an award of damages against him as well as hefty legal fees, in the public eye. The party believes that it can ride out the storm, and that by ignoring the protests they will eventually disappear. But they will not.
PiS should drop its “sue to scare” actions, and the EU should act to protect those who speak out against illiberal governmental action
Our first aim is to convince the Polish ruling party that to continue to pursue sue-to-scare tactics against its critics at the expense of the Polish taxpayer is against its own reasonable self-interest. It is evident to most observers that these lawsuits are brought because politicians fear debating their critics and answering the penetrating criticisms which have been made. PiS should drop the charges it has brought, or have its allies drop them where they were brought on its behalf, so that the basis for each of the cases disappears. Showing support for outspoken Polish intellectuals is by no means an act of Poland-bashing. Poland, with its magnificent history and culture, is an important part of the European family. Admiration for Poland as a country is quite distinct from the concern about the practices of its current ruling party, PiS, which represents a substantial minority – 44% – of Polish voters.
Every EU citizen should be concerned with supporting the freedom of academics and critics who speak out in defence of democracy, however sharply. This is not only because the critics are speaking out to protect Polish and European democracy, but also because their freedom of expression directly impacts our own. If the critical reflections of scholars and commentators in Poland are curtailed through legal and other proceedings to silence them, all of us both inside and outside of Poland would no longer be informed about events within the European public and political space that we share.
Our second and related aim is focused on other actors, particularly on the EU institutions and EU member states. We want to say to them and to other institutional actors outside the EU who are concerned with the rule of law and human rights (such as the UN, the OSCE and the Council of Europe), that the time for sitting on the fence is up. When it comes to such a sustained and targeted attempt to harass and silence intellectuals and critics, the time for exchanges of generalities, for thinking up ever new methods of monitoring, and for moving around the hot potato is over. The time has come to mount a coordinated effort to discourage and halt the oppression.
There is method to the PiS harassment, and it requires a cogent counter-effort to confront it. Polish and EU taxpayers should be able to expect some effectiveness from the institutions established on their behalf to deal with serious threats to liberal democracy. By any reasonable definition of liberal democracy, the harassment and hounding of critics who speak out in the public interest should be a bright red line. It should not be possible for any EU member state in 2019 to cross that red line without being officially challenged and confronted. Each of the institutional actors mentioned above, but particularly the EU, has clear responsibilities and indeed binding legal obligations to act to protect democracy and the rule of law. It is their responsibility to confront actors like PiS in situations like this one, to make clear and to convince them that they cannot, as government of a member of the EU, threaten and harass their critics. The time for avoidance and prevarication is over. Now it is time to act.
Stand with Wojciech – #WithWoj
This is not a difficult case in substance. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights – which is also the foundation for Article 11 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights – protects freedom of expression, and case law makes clear that sharp criticism of politicians is covered by that protection, and that legal proceedings brought against critics even for harsh political criticism constitutes an unlawful interference with such freedom of expression. For member states of the European Union, the quality of their democracy and protection for fundamental principles such as freedom of expression for political critics is no longer just a matter of national law and interest. Freedom of expression also has a transnational dimension in the European political arena, and repression of political speech at the national level has repercussions for the European political space.
Yet even though the case is a clear and simple one, and the hounding of Sadurksi by PiS and its allies is a clear violation of freedom of expression under EU and ECHR law, it seems equally clear from the failure of our efforts thus far to prompt member state governments and EU institutions to intervene to protect him and prevent further legal harassment, that such action is not easy to secure. At this stage the best chance to draw attention to Sadurski’s case and to press for action in his case is to call on you, the academic community, to act together with us in a focused, concerted and public way. We propose to do this using #WithWoj. Please use it, personalise it and tweet your support! If you don’t use social media, please express your support by leaving a comment below. Any attention you can draw to his case, whether through social media, blogging or any other medium is greatly appreciated.
As all too many commentators have recently noted, democracy dies not by a single stroke but by a series of small cuts, when we stand by and fail to notice or to act as each cut is made. Let’s keep the spotlight on this instance of being caught-in-the-cutting-act – and do what we can to make a difference together.
Dziekuję – Thank you
I support Wojciech Sadurski and do agree with the opinion expressed in this article
Miroslaw Wyrzykowski
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj, Paul Blokker, University of Bologna
#WithWoj, Ronald Janse, Open University Netherlands
#WithWoj, Marcin Matczak, University of Warsaw
#WithWoj, Martin Krygier, University of New South Wales
I entirely agree with the sentiments and views expressed above.
Laurence Gormley,
Emeritus Professor of European Law, University of Groningen.
#WithWoj, Sergio Verdugo, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
I stand wholeheartedly with Professor Sadurski. I fully understand his anger and admire the effort to discredit ill motives of those in power.
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj, Gianluigi Palombella
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj – Massimo Fichera
Thank you for taking the time to put together this post. Wojciech can count on my full support. Laurent Pech
#WithWoj, I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. Aspa Theochari, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Peter Lindseth, University of Connecticut School of Law
Thanks for the initiative. I also fully stand with Wojciech. Gábor Halmai, European University Institute
I stand #WithWoj. Eoin O’Dell, Trinity College Dublin
The misuse of the Polish legal system to threaten Freedom of Expression in Poland must stop. I stand with Wojciech Sadurski. Christian Boulanger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
I STAND WITH WOJCIECH
I support the principle of freedom of expression, and I support Wojciech Sadurski.
#WithWoj. Zsolt Körtvélyesi, ELTE, Budapest
I stand #WithWoj and with all liberal democrats in Poland.
Cas Mudde, University of Georgia
I STAND WITH WOJCIECH and all the huge,y courageous Polish people fighting to protect pluralism.
Professor of Law and Philosophy
King’s College London
I stand #WithWoj
#WithWoj, all the way!
Henri de Waele, Radboud University Nijmegen / University of Antwerp
Wojciech Sadurski has my full support.
A. Drzemczewski
I fully support Professor Wojciech Sadurski.
I support the appeal in favour of Prof. Zadurski.
I stand #WithWoj Lucia Scaffardi, Università di Parma
I support Wojciech Sadurski and freedom of expression. I oppose authoritarian efforts to intimidate and silence critics.
James D’Emilio, University of South Florida
I stand in support of Wojciech Sadurski.
Emily Kidd White
Assistant Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School.
I stand #WithWoj.
Thank you for speaking out on behalf of Professor Sadurski. It is a scandal that an EU member government can attack the freedom of expression of critics like this. I stand #WithWoj. Professor R. Daniel Kelemen – Rutgers University
I am entirely behind Professor Sadurski, and applaud the efforts of those colleagues who have organised the petition.
I fully support Prof.Wojciech Sadurski and express my sympathy to him
Dick Marty
Dr.h.c.
former Chairman of the Committee for legal affairs and human rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
#WithWoj, Tom Flynn, University of Essex
Poland needs the criticism of Prof. Sadurski. It makes Poland stronger, not weaker.
Fully in support of this initiative and standing with Wojciech. Marise Cremona, European University Institute
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Dr Eszter Szenes
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski and against Govts who try to gag academics and dissenting opinions. This is beyond imaginable that such actions can be tolerated within the European Union. #WithWoj,
I fully support Prof.Wojciech Sadurski and express my support of freedom of speech and academic freedom.
#WithWoj, Kevin Jon Heller, University of Amsterdam & Australian National University
Fully in support of this initiative and standing #WithWoj.
Claire Kilpatrick, European University Institute.
I very much support Wojciech. On Thursday his book will be presented at the University of Milan, in his presence. I will be at the European Parliament, speaking about freedom of expression from the perspective of the Council of Europe. I intend to insist on the positive obligations of ECRH parties to ensure that freedom.
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Standing with Wojciech Sadurski, and against all such shabby attacks on academics of integrity by governments without any. Nick Cheesman, Australian National University.
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Professor Antje Wiener, FAcSS
By-Fellow Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Founding Editor, Global Constitutionalism
I support Wojciech Sadurski in his struggle to uphold the rule of law in Poland. Mario Ricciardi, professor of Philosophy of Law, The University of Milan and LUISS “Guido Carli” Rome. Editor “rivista il Mulino”.
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Alexander Kirshner
Duke University
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Thank you for your initiative in support of Prof. Sadurski and of his defence of our freedom of expression – and shame on the illiberal ’sue to scare‘ actions of the Polish ruling party!
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#WithWoj – this is our battle, in Poland, in Hungary, in Hongkong, in Chile, in Brazil (and [too] many other places right now).
NO PASSARAN !
Standing #WithWoj.
#WithWoj, Kevin Walton, University of Sydney
I stand #WithWoj, Martin Scheinin, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, European University Institute
#WithWoj, Akritas Kaidatzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Grażyna Baranowska,
Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
I stand #WithWoj
Robert Schütze, Professor of European Union Law.
I fully support Prof.Wojciech Sadurski and express my support of freedom of speech and academic freedom Iseult Honohan, University College Dublin.
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Dr. Ali Acar (EUI Alumni, Cankaya University)
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj, David Lieberman, University of California, Berkeley
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#WithWoj, Stanisław Biernat, Jagiellonian University
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Prof Claudina Richards, University of East Anglia
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Tommaso Pavone, Postdoctoral Fellow, PluriCourts at the University of Oslo
I fully support Wojciech Sadurski’s freedom of speech and the right to criticise strongly authoritarian governments and to expose their arbitrary practices, which have been undermining constitutional democracies in Central and Eastern Europe from Poland to Slovenia.
Jernej Letnar Černič, New University, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
I stand with Professor Sadurski, one of the leading constitutional minds of our generation
Mark A. Graber, Regents Professor, University of Maryland
I stand with Prof. Sadurski
Wojciech Sadurski is a high-level academic who has the right to voice his learned opinion against any attack on the rule of law and human rights in his native Poland. He receives my full support and hopefully also the support of many other academics in Europe and around the world, in the name of academic freedom and the freedom of expression.
I stand with Prof. Sadurski (#WithWoj). Giuseppe Martinico, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Wojchiech Sadurski’s writings have illuminated issues of free expression around the world. It is a bitter irony to have to speak out on behalf of his own free speech rights–but I am proud to join the scholars from around the world who are doing so.
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Matej Avbelj, Professor of European Law, New University
I stand with Wojchiech Sadurski and for democracy and citizenship rights in Poland
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Lars Vinx, University of Cambridge
I support Professor Sadurski and all that he represents.
I stand #WithWoj!
Alexandra Kemmerer
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
I fully support professor Sadurski!
Dragoljub Popović
former judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Standing #WithWoj
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche – Asser Institute, The Hague
I stand with Prof Wojciech Sadurski — #WithWoj.
Therese Murphy, Queen’s University Belfast
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#withWoj Mark B. Taylor, University of Oslo and Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
I stand #withWoj
Ninguém larga a mão de ninguém.
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Jorrit Rijpma, Associate Professor European Law, Leiden Law School.
I stand with Wojciech
I fully support Prof Sadurski and fully agree with this initiative in defense of freedom of expression.
Dr Emanuela Orlando, University of Sussex
I too wholeheartedly support Wojciech Sadurski. Academic freedom must be defended.
I support the principle of freedom of expression, and I support Wojciech Sadurski.
Paula Pessoa
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Thomas Gschwend, Professor of Political Science, University of Mannheim
I obviously support freedom of expression, especially when it is critical and supported bu reason, as is and should be the case with academics as Sadurski. Freedom of expression is a right to express ideas and opinions regardless of their popularity, and it is also the obligation to tolerate such opinions and ideally to engage in rational debate with them. Sadurski should be allowed to express himself and compensated for the judicial harassment he is suffering. No Member State is 100% free of suspicion and being in the EU should be a guarantee that these persecutions do not happen. Poland, Hungary, even Spain (sometimes) engage in similar practices and the EU sits on the fence
I stand with Prof Sadurski in defence of academic freedom.
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I too support Wojciech Sadurski and freedom of expression
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Anna Gora, Postdoctoral Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
I stand #WithWoj
Prof. Adam Lazowski, University of Westminster, London
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Marcin Betkier, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington
I fully support Prof. Sadurski.
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Raphael Oidtmann
University of Mannheim & Frankfurt Peace Research Institute (PRIF)
I stand with Wojciech.
I stand with Prof Sadurski in defence of academic freedom.
Giselinde Kuipers, Catholic University Leuven
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Hanne Petersen, professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj, Costanza Margiotta, University of Padova
I stand #WithWoj and I congratulate him to stand up and voice his concerns. This is personal Courage and much needed in critical times.
#WithWoj, Antoine Buyse, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University
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I am fully #WithWoj.
#WithWoj – Fleur Johns, UNSW Law
All my solidarity
Academic freedom must never be tampered with! I fully support Prof. W. Sadurski and his actions in this regard
Fully with Way
Raffaele Bifulco
Professor Sadurski has my full support.
It is my honor to stand with Wojciech Sadurski
I stand in support of Wojciech Sadurski. Blatant violation of his right to freedom of expression.
Stijn Smet, Hasselt University
I stand #WithWoj with Wojciech Sadurski and with the pro-democracy and rule of law movement in Poland. I urge the Polish government to drop the baseless cases. Melissa Hooper, Washington, D.C.
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I support Wojciech Sadurski and the cause of freedom of expression in Poland
I am totally behind your call in support of Professor Sadurski’s right and duty to speak his mind as an intellectual and to stand up against PiS and illiberalism
I stand #WithWoj
Jessica Lawrence
Central European University
Budapest
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Christine Landfried
University of Hamburg
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj
Free speech is needed for a robust society
I strongly support Professor W. Sadurski.
Peter Leuprecht
Professor of public international law,Montreal
Former Deputy Secretary-General and Director of Human Rights, Council of Europe
More vindictive behavior that needs to be protested:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/08/india-strips-citizenship-journalist-aatish-taseer-criticised-modi-regime
#WithWoj and freedom of expression.
Scott Veitch, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
As a freedom of opinion scholar I fully support my former EUI colleague Wojciech Sadurski!
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Law Faculty, University of Hamburg
November 19th, 2019
I strongly support this effort. #WithWoj!
Jeremy Webber, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
I too stand with Wojciech Sadurski.
Monica Claes, Maastricht University
Wojciech Sadurski can count on my full support.
I stand #WithWoj
Simon Drugda, PhD candidate at thr University of Copenhagen
I stand with my PhD Supervisor at EUI!
Koen Lemmens
Law Faculty, KU Leuven (Belgium)
I stand with Wojciech and freedom of expression.
Jiří Přibáň
Director of the Centre of Law and Society
Cardiff University
#WithWoj
Erin Delaney, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
#WithWoj, Marc De Leeuw, UNSW Law
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Professor Colm O’Cinneide, UCL
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Tobias Lock, Maynooth University Department of Law
#withwoj. Icourts and Mikael Rask Madsen
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Sophie Weerts, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
It is necessary to defend the freedom of expression
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski against oppression.
#WithWoy! Nico Krisch, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
I fully stand with Prof. Wojciech Sadurski. Youri Devuyst, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
I stand #WithWoj
Tania Groppi, Università di Siena, Italy
I support Prof. Wojciech Sadurski and academic freedom.
#WithWoj -Francisca Pou (ITAM,Mexico)
I stand with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Christopher F. Zurn, Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
I stand with Professor Wojciech Sadurski. Maciej Cisło, the writer. Poland
I support prof. Wojciech Sadurski
I also agree #WithWoj.
Eric Fripp, Barrister (England & Wales), Lamb Building, Temple, London EC4Y, and Visiting Fellow, Refugee Law Initiative, University of London
I fully support Wojciech Sadurski and stand #WithWoj
Werner Schroeder, Professor of European Law and Public International Law, University of Innsbruck, Austria
I support prof. Wojciech Sadurski
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj Cora Chan, University of Hong Kong
Add yet one more name to those standing with the eminent Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj
David Abraham, Professor of Citizenship and Immigration Law, University of Miami
I fully support Wojciech and agree with the letter set out above
I stand with prof. Sadurski!
Jorge Ernesto Roa Roa. Externado Uiversity from Colombia.
I wholeheartedly stand with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski I stand with freedom. #WithWoj Antonios Kouroutakis, IE University Madrid
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, Professor at the Sorbonne Law School
#WithWoj; with free speech…
I stand #WithWoj Patrícia Jerónimo, Law School University of Minho
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I stand with Wojciech Sadurski #WithWoj #with decency, King’s College London
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski and against all efforts to curtail his freedom of speech rights!
Michel Rosenfeld, Cardozo School of Law, New York City
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#WithWoj – Andrew Novak, Dept. of Criminology Law and Society, George Mason University
In support of Wojciech Sadurski. All forms of abusive use of government power to silence speech is dictatorship. All forms of dictatorship will fail and collapse.
I stand #withWojciech
Professor of Constitutional Law
Pontifical Catholic University of Parana
Brazil
I stand with Professor Sadurski. Professor Neus Torbisco-Casals, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva). #WithWoj
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Pietro Faraguna, University of Trieste
I stand #WithWoj in support of our freedom, of liberal democracy and of open societies. This must be our fight!
Luisa Marin, University of Padua, Italy
I Stand with Wojciech!
Ming-Sung Kuo, University of Warwick
I stand #WithWoj because freedom of speech is one of the foundations of democracy.
I stand #withWojciech!
Professor Piotr Mikuli, Jagiellonian University
Wojciech Sadurski has my full support.
Maciej Taborowski
Full support to Professor Sadurski.
In support of Wojciech Sadurski. All forms of abusive use of government power to silence speech is dictatorship. All forms of dictatorship will fail and collapse.
Dr. Ge Chen
Durham Law School
I fully support these ideas and I stand with Wojciech.
The integral link between freedom of expression and democracy has been extensively demonstrated. Restricting critical academic speech is a grave violation and no government engaging in such an action can justify it as a democratic act. I, too, fully support Professor Sadurski in these cases.
#WithWoj.
„Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.“ (John Milton)
Johann Justus Vasel, EUI
I support academic freedom and stand with Professor Wojciech Sadurski.
Professor Penelope Andrews
New York Law School
I stand in full agreement with this post and in support of Wojciech Sadurski.
Frank Michelman
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University
I support Wojciech Sadurski and do agree with the opinion expressed in this article.
#WithWoj,
We are together with professor Wojciech Sadurski. A professor must have its liberty of expression protected.
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Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza
Professor of Constitutional Law – Universidade Federal do Paraná – Brasil
I stand with my good friend Wojcieh Sadurski, whose integrity and many contributions to thinking about the role of law are prized by many throughout the free world. Prosecuting him is an act of cowardice.
I stand #WithWoj
#WithWoj, Michael W. Dowdle, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
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Youngjae Lee
Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
New York, NY
USA
Sadursky has been doing a great service to the world in defence of liberty, democracy and academic freedom. I support the view of the article.
In Brazil, Latin America and several countries, we have witnessed the return of the far left, which insists on stifling freedom of thought and academic autonomy. I support academic freedom and stand with Professor Wojciech Sadurski.
I stand firmly with Wojciech Sadurski.
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Cheng-Yi Huang
Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
I strongly agree with this post and stand with professor Sadurski #WithWoj
Universidad Austral de Chile
I stand firmly with Wojciech Sadurski.
Denis de Castro Halis,
UNESA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
University of Macau, Macau, China.
I stand #WithWoj.
Mauro Zamboni, Professor in Legal Theory, Stockholm University, Sweden.
I stand with Professor Sadurski #WithWoj #FreedomofExpression #AcademicFreedom
I stand in full agreement with this post and in firm support of Wojciech Sadurski.
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Paul Linden-Retek, Yale Law School
Guenter Frankenberg
Seniorprof Goethe Uni Frankfurt
I fully support Woj and public criticism
I strongly support Professor Sadurski.
I stand in total support of Wojciech Sadurski, and the cause of academic freedom.Hugh Corder, Professor of Public Law, University of Cape Town.
I stand #WithWoj!
Antoine Vauchez, CNRS research prof.Université Paris 1- Sorbonne
I fully support professor Sadurski!
#WithWoj!
Eva Pils, Professor of Law, King’s College London
In full support of W.Sadurski
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Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor of Public Law, University of Oxford
#WithWoj, Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Leiden University, the Netherlands
#WithWoj, Patrick Emerton, Monash University
#WithWoj, Hans Petter Graver, University of Oslo
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj, Mario Savino, Tuscia University of Viterbo (Italy)
#WithWoj, Elaine Mak, Utrecht University
with Professor Wojciech Sadurski.
Patricia Rrapi, Université Paris Nanterre
I stand with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
#WIthWoj, Barbara Boschetti, Catholic University, Milan
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Pedro A. Villarreal, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj,Laurie Marguet, Université Paris 12
In full support of W.Sadurski’s freedom of expression
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski.
İsmail Yüksel, Baskent University Faculty of Law, Ankara
I support Professor Sadurski.
Nick Barber, Professor of Constitutional Law and Theory, Oxford University
My full support to the freedom of expression. Drop the charges against professor Woicek Sadurski!
I fully support Wojciech Sadurski!
Prof. Diana-Urania Galetta, University of Milan
I fully support Professor Sadurski
Margit Cohn, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
I fully support Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Cesare Pinelli, Sapienza University of Rome
What a shocking case of trying to silence an outspoken critic. I stand with Professor Sadurski. #WithWoj -Niels Petersen, University of Münster
I support Wojciech Sadurski.
Ingo Venzke
University of Amsterdam
I fully support Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Magdalena Kmak, Åbo Akademi University, University of Helsinki
I stand #WithWoj
Prof. Gila Stopler
College of Law and Business, Israel
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski!
Dr Stefano Osella
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology – Department of Law and Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
I stand with Wojciech and the defence of academic freedom. Myriam Hunter-Henin
I stand with Wojcieck, for freedom and respect.
Dr. Maria Federica Moscati
Senior Lecturer
University of Sussex
I stand with Wojcieck!
Dr. Maria Federica Moscati
Senior Lecturer
University of Sussex
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Mario Mendez
Queen Mary University of London
I stand #WithWoj!
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Dr. Delia Ferri
Maynooth University Department of Law
I stand #WithWoj
And fully support him.
Dr. Yaniv Roznai, Harry Radzyner Law School
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)Herzliya
I’m with Wojciech.#WithWoj
Prof.Jerfi Uzman, Utrecht University
I stand #WithWoj
Gloria Sdanganelli
PhD student
University of Turin
I stand #WithWoj entirely, and fully support and defend his actions.
Cathryn Costello
Professor of Refugee and Migration Law
University of Oxford
I stand with Woj, great professor and friend.
Franco Peirone
Maastricht University
I stand with Woj
I sand with Prof. Sadurski, a friend of mine , ine of the greatest minds of our time, the true light of constitutionalism and liberal values.
Prof. Dr. Enver Hasani. University of Pristina. Kosovo
I support Wojciech Sadurski.
I support Prof. Sadurski.
I stand #WithWoj and support his right to freedom of expression and academic freedom.
Elaine Fahey
City Law School, City, University of London
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Associate Professor of Constitutional Law
University of Brasília
WithWoj.
Prof. Dr. Gerald Mäsch
University of Münster
Germany
I agree with the post and support Professor Sadurski.
Kai Möller
Associate Professor of Law, LSE
I stand by Wojciech Sadurski.
Dr Haris Psarras, University of Southampton
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Ondrej Hamuľák
Faculty of Law,
Palacký University Olomouc
Czech Republic
I stand #WithWoj
I stand with Professor Sadurski and freedom of expression.
I support Prof. Sadurski.
Manon Altwegg-Boussac Université Paris Creteil
I fully support Professor Sadurski and freedom of (academic) expression.
I support Professor Sadurski.#WithWoj
Nik de Boer
University of Amsterdam
I fully stand with Wojciech and support of academic freedom.
Of course with Wojciech!
#WithWoj
Benedikt Pirker, University of Fribourg
I fully support Professor Sadurski
Ioanna Tourkochoriti, NUI Galway School of Law
I stand #WithWoj
Dr Angela Daly
Law School
Strathclyde University (Scotland)
UK/Polish citizen
I stand #WithWoj
I stand #WithWoj and in support of academic freedom.
Stephanie Law, University of Southampton.
I stand #WithWoj
Dr. Darinka Piqani, Leiden Law School
#WithWoj
David Landau
Florida State University College of Law
#WithWoj
Dr. Sarah Ganty
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Yale Law School
I absolutely support Professor Sadurski.
Jane Henderson, Affiliate, The Dickson Poon School of Law
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski
I fully support Wojciech Sadurski.
Victor Ferreres Comella
Professor of Constitutional Law, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin
I stand with #WithWoj
Eleonora Bottini, Prof. Université de Caen Normandie (France)
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski!
#withWoj
#WithWoj, Michał Ziółkowski (Kozminski University Warsaw, MWF at EUI in Florence)
Standing with Professor Sadurski is not just an expression of personal sympathy or shared political opinions. It is a matter of principle and moral support for a civilized form of government. Which Poland will have one day again because of people like Professor Sadurski and those who stand up for him.
#withWoj!
Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski! #withWoj
#WithWoj
Professor of Constitutional Law
Bilkent University
Ankara / TURKEY
#withWoj!
#WithWoj
Professor of Criminal Law
University of Chile
#withWoj
Ukri Soirila, University of Helsinki
#withWoj
Immi Tallgren
Erik Castren Institute
University of Helsinki
#WithWoj
Suppression of freedom of expression is the suppression of democracy.
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
#WithWoj, Thomas Gutmann, University of Muenster
#withWoj
Parvathi Menon
Erik Castren Institute
University of Helsinki
#WithWoj
#WithWoj
Susana Ruiz Tarrías
University of Granada
Spain
#WithWoj, Ana Micaela Alterio, ITAM (México)
I stand #WithWoj
Professor Andreas Müller
Department of European Law and Public International Law
University of Innsbruck
#WithWoj, supporting freedom, democracy, rule of law, respect for each human being and Poland
I stand #WithWoj.
Paolo Amorosa, University of Helsinki
I stand #WithWoj
I support the freedom to criticise government.
#WithWoj, Petra Gyöngyi, University of Oslo
I totally stand with prof. Sadursky #withWoj
Prof. Stefano Civitarese, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
I stand #WithWoj
Federica Cittadino, Eurac Research, Italy
I fully support this letter and our colleague Wojciech Sadurski.
I stand by Professor Sadurski and with the authors of the letter. If needed we should crowfund to support Professor Sadurski in his legal battle.
I stand #WithWoj
Stoję #zWoj
Dr. Maarten Hillebrandt
Eric Castrén Institute
University of Helsinki
#withWoj
Mila Versteeg, University of Virginia School of Law
I join in the worldwide support for freedom of expression in Poland and for the right of our colleague Wojciech Sadurski to express his opinion without the fear of criminal sanctions
#WithWoj
I support this letter and Wojciech Sadurski
#WithWoj
Matyas Bencze
I totally agree with the abovementioned and stand #WithWoj
I stand #WithWoj Friderik Klampfer, associate professor of philosophy, University of Maribor, Slovenia
I STAND WITH WOJCIECH
I support Pan Sadurski
#WithWoj
Alicia Hinarejos
University of Cambridge
As the Polish courts are obliged to apply Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the ECtHR in particular with regard the freedom of political expression, there can be no doubt that prof. Sadurski should not be convicted or held liable for criticizing the leading political party in Poland
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. Costas Stratilatis, University of Nicosia.
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski. #WithWoj, Dr. Antonis Metaxas, Ass. Professor of EU Law, University of Athens
#WithWoj
Kangle Zhang
Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
I fully stand #WithWoj
Helena Colodetti, Constitutional Law Professor, Universidade Fumec, Brazil
I fully stand with Wojciech Sadurski
I stand with Woj Sadursky!!! The far right and the dictatorship is looming over Europe. We are slowly losing our rights!! We need to stop this now!!!
Bruno Mestre, PhD (EUI), Judge at Portuguese Courts
I fully support professor Sadurski’s freedom of political and academic expression.
In full support of Prof Sadurski and freedom of expression #WithWoj
Maria Bergström
EU-Law
Uppsala University
Happy to support Wojciech.
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski #WithWoj
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski.
I stand #WithWoj, for the freedom of Science, for the freedom of Constitutional Law – Giorgio Grasso, University of Insubria (Italy), Department of Law, Economic and Cultures.
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski, #WithWoj
I fully support Wojciech and academic freedom
Kathryn McMahon, University of Warwick
The case of Prof. Wojciech Sadurski evokes memories from Soviet times, where critics of the government were subjected to criminal prosecutions. I strongly support Prof. Sadurski for speaking out and wish him resilience. Many thanks to the co-ordinators of this support statement. It should not be forgotten though that Poland had until 2015 some of the highest post-totalitarian type of rule of law safeguards, especially as defended by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, as also shown in Prof. Sadurski’s extensive research. Hopefully there is still a way to return to these at some point in the future.
Anneli Albi, Professor of European Law, University of Kent, UK
#withWoj
Tímea Drinóczi
University of Pécs, Hungary
I fully support Wojciech Sadurski.
I fully support Prof. Wojciech Sadurski. European Union should take strong further actions about Poland’s continuous infringements. #WithWoj
Of course #WithWoj!
Freedom of expression and of academic freedom is sacred – particularly against politicians! #WithWoj
I fully support Prof. Sadurski. Z Profesorem Sadurskim! #WithWoj
I wish to support freedom of speech for Wojciech Sadurski and all others.
Professor Emeritus Martha O’Brien
Faculty of Law
University of Victoria
In support of Wojciech Sadurski and of freedom of speech
Francesco Palermo
Professor of comparative constitutional law, University of Verona and Head, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurc Research, Bolzano/Bozen
My full support to Wojciech Sadurski in defense of the free speech’s right.
Prof. Dr. Joaquin Urias
Professor on Constitutional Law
University of Sevilla (Spain)
Solidarnošć WithWoy in good and bad times.
Arsen Bačić
Constitutional Law Professor
Faculty of Law University of Split, Croatia
I support Professor Wojciech Sadurski and freedom of speech !
I fully support this initiative and stand #WithWoj.
Antonio Lo Faro, Professor of Labour law at the University of Catania
Total support for Professor Sadurski
STOP sue-to-scare PiS tactics!
I stand #WithWoj
Agnieszka Nimark, Cornell University
I stand with Wojciech Sadurski! #WithWoj
Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Professor of European Law, Stockholm University
#WithWoj
Charlotte Steer
University of NSW, Sydney
I fully support Professor Wojciech Sadurski –
Ryszard Piotrowski
I stand #WithWoj
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Les propos de Prof Sadurski sont vulgaires et insultants. Et vous le soutenez ?
I fully stand with Wojciech and support of academic freedom.
We will continue, all of us, to stand for him and for our freedom of expression in Europe ann all around the world.
Such legal action against a brave man expresses weakness, not strength and undermines Poland’s international reputation.
I stand with #WithWoj