Commissioner for Human Rights

Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission, expressed her gratitude to Adam Bodnar for his work as the Commissioner for Human Rights.

National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture issued a report on ad hoc visits to the rooms for detained persons or persons brought for sobering up within the units reporting to the Warsaw Police Headquarters and to the Voivodeship (i.e.

National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report presenting results of monitoring in Guarded Centres for Foreigners in Poland.

On 19 May 2021 a hearing took place before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Grzęda v Poland. The Grand Chamber of the ECtHR considered allegations of a judge who was a member of the National Council of the Judiciary (NCJ). The judge’s term of office was…

The Constitutional Tribunal in its judgment of 15 April 2021 (ref. no.

Polish and Georgian National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) – the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland and the Public Defender of Georgia invited Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and NHRIs form all over the World to support their joint statement on the protection of the…

The Commissioner for Human Rights (CHR) is of the opinion that the prosecutor office's motion to the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court for consent to detention of judge Igor Tuleya for the purpose of compulsory appearance is ungrounded, and that it has been filed with…

In response to the CHR’s request dated 26 January 2021, ODIHR provided Urgent Opinion on the Draft Act Amending the Code of Procedure in Petty Offence Cases of Poland.