MOSCOW, May 11 (Sputnik) — Sviridov's case has been included in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring reports on freedom of the media, which documents violations of journalists' rights within OSCE member states.
"An official request to exclude Leonid Sviridov from the list of persons banned from entering the country [Poland] and other countries of the Schengen area, since this ban violates the Polish ‘Act on Aliens,’ was sent by mail to the Polish Office for Foreigners," Chelstowski told RIA Novosti.
On October 24, 2014, the Polish Foreign Ministry annulled Sviridov's accreditation. In April last year, the Polish authorities deprived him of residence permit and ordered the correspondent to leave the country. In mid-December, Sviridov left Warsaw for Moscow to begin legal proceedings against the authorities' decisions.
