Andrzej Sebastian Duda (born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who has served as president of Poland since 6 August 2015. Before becoming president, Andrzej Duda was a member of Polish Lower House (Sejm) from 2011 to 2014 and the European Parliament from 2014 to 2015.
Update: Polish police detain 48 LGBTQ+activists
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 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.Dunja Mijatovic, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, has referred 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.
