In reference to the numerous questions concerning the opportunity to participate in the International Summer Scholl on Human Rights we kindly inform, that this year’s eddition of the School will not be organised in connection with the European Championships in football Euro 2012, which will take place in Poland.

Last week, another hearing in the proceedings against the head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) was held in the Circuit Court in Warsaw. The case originated with a suit for infringement of personal interests brought by Bogdan Wróblewski, a journalist with the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, who alleged that the CBA had unlawfully acquired journalist’s [...]

According to the statement of the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Cracow received by the HFHR, in the course of the investigation involving the offence under article 231(1) of the Criminal Code (abuse of power) the prosecutors interviewed 62 persons and collected 20 volumes of evidence.

The constitutional protection of the freedom of speech does not mean that there is a presumption of this freedom’s precedence over other rights and freedoms. The constitutional legislator indeed opted for another kind of preferential treatment, reads the Ministry of Justice’s response to a HFHR’s letter. The Ministry’s position has been clearly defined: article 212 [...]

The Circuit Court in Rzeszów ruled that the Musa Dogan’s extradition to Turkey would be inadmissible, citing the risk of torture as one of the grounds for the decision.