Protests in Lithuania in the Pandemic Era

• Authors: Joanna Marszałek-Kawa

Title variants

PL

Protesty na Litwie w dobie pandemii

Abstracts

PL

Pandemia COVID-19 wywołała globalny kryzys na niespotykaną dotąd skalę. W celu powstrzymania rozprzestrzeniania się wirusa rządy podjęły natychmiastowe działania, przyjmując nowe regulacje prawne, które zawierały ograniczenia i ograniczenia w sferze konstytucyjnych praw i wolności. O ile w pierwszej fazie pandemii społeczeństwa ze zrozumieniem akceptowały nowe zasady rządzące ich życiem, o tyle z czasem poziom zaufania do władzy malał. Celem artykułu jest omówienie działań protestujących i różnych ich form oraz analiza reakcji funkcjonariuszy organów ścigania, którzy zabezpieczali demonstracje. Podjęto się poszukiwania odpowiedzi na dwa podstawowe pytania badawcze: Jakie działania podjęli protestujący w czasie pandemii na Litwie? Jaki był charakter i intensywność inwigilacji, zastraszania i obecności policji podczas demonstracji? Badania obejmują okres od 11 marca 2020 r., kiedy Światowa Organizacja Zdrowia ogłosiła pandemię, do jesieni 2021 r., kiedy na Litwie miały miejsce protesty antyszczepionkowe. W opracowaniu zastosowano analizę instytucjonalno-prawną oraz jakościową analizę źródłową.

EN

The COVID-19 caused a global crisis of an unprecedented scale. In order to contain the spread of the virus, governments took instant measures, adopting new legal regulations which included restrictions and limitations in the sphere of constitutional rights and freedoms. The aim of the paper is to discuss protesters’ actions and their different forms, and to analyse the response of law enforcement officers who secured demonstrations. I undertook to find the answers to two fundamental research questions: What action did protesters take during the pandemic in Lithuania? What was the character and intensity of the surveillance, intimidation and presence of the police during demonstrations? The research covers the period from 11 March 2020, when the World Health Organization declared the pandemic, to the autumn of 2021, when anti-vaccine protests took place in Lithuania. In the study, I applied the institutional and legal analysis, as well as the qualitative source analysis.

Keywords

EN

Police; anti-lockdown protests; protest policing; Contentious politics; Coronavirus Crisis; Lithuania

PL

Policja; protesty przeciwko lockdownom; zarządzanie protestem; polityka sporu; kryzys koronawirusa; Litwa

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 3(73)
• Pages: 295-319

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

• https://orcid.org/0000000242018028

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppk.2023.03.22

Biblioteka Nauki

6572066