The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning tax laws. The application alleges that by basing a tax authority’s decision on insufficiently precise provisions, Poland may have breached the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding respect for the right […]

Five years have passed since the events that unfolded on 26 February 2014 outside the building of the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol. On that day, two demonstrations took place at the venue: a pro-Ukrainian protest and a counter-protest of pro-Russian separatists. The event marked the high point of tensions in the Crimea and the starting […]

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is deeply concerned about the death of an inmate of the prison at Sieraków Śląski. The HFHR has brought this case to the attention of the Circuit Prosecutor’s Office in Częstochowa.