Polish FM says anti-defamation law can be clarified

Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz believes that it is possible to make the new Polish anti-defamation law "more precise." "The Constitutional Tribunal will surely disperse doubts connected with the amended law on the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) - The Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation," the minister told public radio on Thursday. Under the so-called anti-defamation law, all those who publicly attribute, contrary to the facts, responsibility or co-responsibility for the Third Reich's crimes -- or other crimes against humanity and peace, as well as war crimes -- to the Polish nation or the Polish state can be punished with a fine or a prison term of up to three years.