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The Competition’s award committee chaired by Professor Ewa Łętowska granted one third place award and two special prizes. The laureate of the third place award is Tomasz Dudek, graduate of the Institute of International Relations, the University of Warsaw, who wrote his master’s thesis entitled “The methods of interpretation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on the example of cases concerning discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation”.

Ales Belyatsky, Belarusian human rights activist has become the laureate of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, awarded for the first time by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has issued an official statement to the Governor of the Małopolskie province, Jerzy Miller, concerning the hotel and hospitality centre Zielony Dół which employs persons with mental health problems.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has issued two guides developed as part of the Legal Assistance Programme for Refugees and Migrants. The initiative has been financed from the European Refugee Fund and the state budget.

Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights receives the Non Governmental Organisation of the year 2012 prize of the Economic Forum In Krynica.The Chair of the Board, Danuta Przywara, on behalf of the organisation, accepted the award from Vice-Marshall of the Polish Sejm, Cezary Grabarczyk.

Danuta Przywara, chief of the board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights received yesterday the Jerzy Zimowski Prize. Danuta Przywara is a sociologist, working for the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights from its very beginning, initially, as a memeber of the Founders’ Committee, subsequently, as a Secretary of the Board, Deputy Chair of the Board, and from 2008 as a Chair of the Board.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has written an official letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting the Ministry to initiate a diplomatic intervention concerning the arrest of a human rights defender in Bangladesh, Adilur Rahman Khan.

Human Rights Club of Azerbaijan and the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights on 10 August 2013 present the legal opinion on presidential elections in Azerbaijan. The opinion has been prepared by distinguished constitutional law scholar Professor Wojciech Sadurski.

The Warsaw’s Court of Appeal has just ruled in the case of Wiesław Rutkowski. Mr Rutkowski, who launched the proceedings in September 2012, is a former police officer seeking to be compensated by the State Treasury for his moral and financial losses sustained during his undoubtedly unjust pre-trial detention. The Court of Appeal awarded the ex-officer PLN 59,500 as compensation for moral loss. The court’s judgment is final.