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“Speaking on behalf of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, I would like to express our concern over the hostile behaviour of certain media outlets towards the Human Rights Defender, Professor Irena Lipowicz which was a reaction to her letter to the Minister of National Education regarding anti-discrimination education in pre-schools”, reads the open letter signed by HFHR’s President, Danuta Przywara.

According to media reports, Vietnamese officials visited in April the Białystok guarded centre for foreigners. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has issued a statement in the case to the Chief Commissioner of the Border Guard. Once again, the HFHR noted that any actions of the Border Guard which result in disclosing identification data of refugee applicants may violate the applicants’ rights.

Constitutional Tribunal should consider issuing a signal decision in a case involving the constitutional review of laws governing the storage of and access to telecommunication data, argues the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in a letter to the Constitutional Tribunal.

A new blog launched by the Polish Department for Strategy and Deregulation, recently published a post praising an interactive portal on the Azerbaijani justice system. Nevertheless, the author of the post fails to mention the problems within the Azerbaijani justice system that makes Azerbaijan the weakest link among the Council of Europe member states when it comes to respecting Human Rights. The praising author fails to recognize that the latter problems will simply not disappear by launching a portal.

The HFHR submitted an amicus curiae brief before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Delfi AS v. Estonia. The matter revolves around a crucial contemporary problem related to the freedom of speech on the Internet, namely responsibility of website administrators for unlawful content published by other users. The brief has already been filed with the case file.

The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) admitted the complaint of an Armenian citizen who appealed against a judgment of the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw. In the appealed ruling, the first-instance court upheld a decision of the Head of the Office for Foreigners to refuse the complainant a tolerated residence permit.

A military judge in Guantanamo has ordered US prosecutors to turn over classified information on the locations of CIA “black sites” where al-Nashiri was detained prior to his arrival at the base in 2006. According to the order, the prosecution is to provide details of the treatment al-Nashiri’s received in the facilities.

The Constitutional Tribunal is to rule on two applications for the review of the Assemblies Act. The requests, filed by the Human Rights Defender and two separate groups of parliamentarians, argue that the 2012 amendment of the law rendered it unconstitutional. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has presented an amicus curiae brief in the case, discussing the provisions challenged by the applicants.

“The status of court experts, and in particular the rules governing the review of their skills and competences, should be set out in statute”, concludes the report “Court Experts in Poland” launched during a press conference held in the headquarters of the Polish Business Roundtable.