{"id":242654,"date":"2016-05-10T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=242654"},"modified":"2016-05-10T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:58:25","slug":"poland-abolishes-anti-racism-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poland-abolishes-anti-racism-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Abolishes &#8216;Anti-Racism&#8217; Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Poland\u2019s landslide-elected right-wing government has abolished the national Council Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Law and Justice (PiS) party this week scrapped a public body designed to fight racism and investigate \u201chate crimes\u201d, citing its inefficiency. Government spokesman Rafal Bochenek told reporters the council\u2019s responsibilities will be taken over by \u201cmore efficient\u201d state institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Council Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was set up by the previous government led by the liberal Civic Platform party, who were voted out of office last October after they agreed with the European Union (EU) that the country would take several thousand non-European migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights Ombudsman, and parties opposed to PiS, have widely condemned the government\u2019s abolition of the body as they say hate crimes are increasing in Poland. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful. The council is absolutely necessary amid the increasing number of racially motivated attacks and rising xenophobia,\u201d Ombudsman Adam Bodnar told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fears, spread by certain political parties about refugees are feeding into racist comments on the Internet, and this has not been firmly condemned,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/poland-abolishes-anti-racism-watchdog\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s landslide-elected right-wing government has abolished the national Council Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. The\u00a0Law and Justice (PiS) party this week scrapped a public body designed to fight racism and investigate \u201chate crimes\u201d, citing its inefficiency. Government spokesman Rafal Bochenek told reporters the council\u2019s responsibilities will be taken over by \u201cmore efficient\u201d state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}