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# Update: Polish police detain 48 LGBTQ+activists
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/update-polish-police-detain-48-lgbtqactivists/
- Published: 2020-08-12T12:30:38.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-12T11:50:53.000Z
- Description: Police in the Polish capital Warsaw have detained 48 activists who were protesting the anti-LGBTQ+ regime of president Andrzej Duda.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Community, Information, Mental Health, News, Out & About, Politics, Queer Corner, Andrzej Duda, Europe, LGBTQ, Poland

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Police in the Polish capital **Warsaw** have detained 48 activists who were protesting the anti-LGBTQ+ regime of president **Andrzej Duda** who was re-elected last month, giving him another five years in office. The protestors attempted to stop the police from [arresting three activists](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/polish-lgbtq-activists-arrested/) who were prosecuted for hanging rainbow flags off of multiple statues in Warsaw; one of these activists- Margot- has now been detained for two months in police facilities.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/poland-protests-lgbt-600400.jpg)

**Dunja Mijatovic,** the commissioner for human rights at the **Council of Europe,** [has referred](https://twitter.com/CommissionerHR/status/1292007235447656448?cxt=HHwWgoCwyayhlO4jAAAA&ref=scenemag.co.uk) to the detention of the activists as a ‘very chilling signal’ for LGBTQ+ rights in Poland and has called for the release of Margot immediately. The ruling nationalist **Law and Justice party** has [described](https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-lgbt/polish-police-detain-48-people-after-lgbt-protest-idUKKCN2540D3?il=0&ref=scenemag.co.uk) LGBTQ+ equality is part of an ‘invasive foreign ideology that undermines traditional Polish values’, and president Duda has actively spoken out against the LGBTQ+ community.

Duda was sworn in as president on **Thursday 6 August** [causing](https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/06/poland-president-andrzej-duda-swearing-in-homophobia-lgbt-rights-same-sex-marriage-family/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) some queer Polish citizens to prepare to flee the country as they fear for their safety under Duda’s anti-LGBTQ+ regime. However [Polish MPs retaliated](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8607001/Polish-opposition-shows-rainbow-LGBT-solidarity-presidents-swearing-in.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk) at Duda’s swearing in by donning brightly coloured outfits and rainbow facemasks to demonstrate solidarity with Poland’s queer community.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/polish-mps-rainbow-600.jpg)