Prosecutors will not be pressing hate charges against Lech Walesa after his comments that gay MPs should “sit at the back of parliament”.

Lech Walesa in 2009.

Prosecutors will not be pressing hate charges against Lech Walesa after his comments that gay MPs should “sit at the back of parliament”.

Renata Klonowska, head of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Gdańsk – the city where Walesa led the historic 1980s Solidarity strikes – told the PAP news agency on Wednesday that they would not be pursuing the case, after Ryszard Nowak, director of the National Committee for the Defence Against Sects and Violence brought the matter to their attention, claiming Walesa had “promoted hatred against sexual minorities.”

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