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World in brief: March 24, 2021

POLAND: A writer is facing up to three years in prison for calling the president a “moron” on social media.

Jakub Zulczyk criticised President Andrzej Duda’s reaction to Joe Biden’s US presidential electoral victory last year.

Mr Zulczyk said on Monday that a district prosecutor in Warsaw had filed an indictment against him based on an article in the penal code making it a crime to insult the head of state.

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