Polish League Against Defamation supports legally and financially important lawsuits. We help those who claim their good name and truth in court. The RDI’s activities are also aimed at defending the cult of memory of the deceased, who previously did not live to see their good name restored or the consequences of the infringement of their personal goods removed.

The spread of false information affects the reputation of Poland and Poles, which is why the Polish League Against Defamation bears the costs of important court cases, both legal and administrative, as well as the costs of experts’ and historians’ opinions, in order to be able to fight for the truth .

We have developed a certain legal doctrine that will allow all Poles to defend their good name against those who accuse the entire Polish Nation and Polish State of, for example, perpetrating the Holocaust. Let us remember that the truth about the Second World War, the truth about who was its perpetrator, belongs not only to us, but to all the murdered, the Victims of that war. Any falsification of the truth by attributing the perpetration of the Holocaust to Poles is also an insult to the memory of the Victims, after whom only ashes and pain caused by their absence from Polish life remain. This is why our fight for the good name is so important both from the point of view of the individual and of the nation as a whole.  Taking care of personal goods such as the right to an unadulterated history and national pride, and the right to respect the truth about the actions of Poles during World War II are factors shaping national identity and a sense of national dignity.

The Polish League Against Defamation’s track record includes the development of a legal doctrine, confirmed by court judgments, stating that Polish courts have jurisdiction to proceed against foreign media in Polish courts, based on Polish press and civil law. This applies to the judgment in the case of the film „Our Mothers Our Fathers.”

Another element of the developed legal doctrine is the right to honor the memory of ancestors treated as a personal good, and consequently the emergence of the possibility of defending the good name of Poland and Poles under the provisions of the Civil Code. An example of such a case is the final judgment of the district court in Warsaw in the case of Krystian Brodacki against the Onet portal, which RDI fully supported and legally instrumented, resulting in a judgment awarding compensation to the plaintiff.

Cases in progress