Poland's president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols.

Poland is under siege from a "rainbow plague" of gay rights campaigners, the archbishop of Kraków, Marek Jędraszewski said on Thursday (August 1) comparing it to Poland's former Communist rulers.

Poles can now be fined or even imprisoned if they are caught with a red star, a hammer and sickle or even a Che Guevara t-shirt. Poland has recently passed a law banning symbols of communism. It ...