Archiwa: Regional Court - Association for Legal Intervention

The Court: detention should always be a solution of last resort

19 June 202319 June 2023

The Regional Court in Olsztyn (decision of April 3, 2023, ref. no. VII Kz 150/23), decided to release a Sri Lankan refugee from a guarded centre for migrants. We filed a Friend-of-the-Court (amicus curiae) opinion in thi…

We ask for compensation for unlawful detention for a family from Afghanistan

4 August 202215 December 2023

SIP represents foreigners in a case for compensation for unjustified stay in guarded centers for foreigners. The family from Afghanistan (parents with three children) spent a total of 97 days in detention. Foreigners…

Criminal proceedings against a refugee for illegally crossing the Polish border discontinued

27 July 202211 April 2023

Article 31(1) of the Geneva Convention provides for conditional de-penalisation of illegal border-crossing by refugees. No penalties are to be imposed on them provided they present themselves without delay to the authori…

Compensation for unjust deprivation of liberty of an unaccompanied child

4 May 202215 December 2023

The District Court in Olsztyn, in its judgment of 15 March 2022, II Ko 192/21, awarded compensation in the amount of PLN 20,000.00 for wrongful placement of an unaccompanied minor in a guarded center for foreigners. T…

District Court in Olsztyn: a an unaccompanied child was illegally detained

8 December 202011 April 2023

The Polish Border Guard groundlessly assumed the friend of a seventeen-year-old to be their legal guardian which led to the latter being illegally detained for several months. The District Court in Olsztyn has ordered…

District Court in Olsztyn: a victim of violence may not be put in a detention centre

18 November 202017 January 2023

A migrant should be set free regardless of the reason why they have been placed in a detention centre, the type of violence to which they fell prey, and the exact place where and circumstances under which they suffered v…