Poland prepares laws to regulate media access to border

The Polish government plans legislation on rules governing media access to the Polish-Belarusian border, a parliamentary deputy speaker has said. Under a 30-day state of emergency introduced on September 2, the press were banned from reporting from the three-kilometre strip of land adjacent to the border the state covers. The state of emergency was subsequently prolonged for another 60 days, with the same no-media-access rules still in place. Speaking at a press conference in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, Ryszard Terlecki said that "we will need new regulations when [the state of emergency] ends."