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Despite incorrect implementation of EU law, the war in Ukraine must be taken into account by Polish courts

5 September 202217 January 2023

In the latest judgment, the Supreme Administrative Court states that: · In Ukraine, there are massive attacks on civilians and protected facilities in gross violations of international humanitarian and human rights la…

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

27 July 20224 August 2022

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…

Obligation to examine whether migrants in Belarus are at risk of torture and other inhumane treatment

14 June 202214 June 2022

Foreigners cannot be pushed into Belarus if they would be in danger of torture, inhuman or otherwise unacceptable treatment there. Neither a migration crisis nor illegal border crossings exclude the application of this p…

Compensation for unjust deprivation of liberty of an unaccompanied child

4 May 20224 May 2022

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…

Pushbacks are inhumane, illegal and based on illegal regulation – the Court says

31 March 20227 April 2022

The first Polish court ruling indicating that push-backs on the Polish-Belarusian border are inhumane and illegal. The regulation constituting the basis for the actions of the Border Guard deemed to have been issued in e…

The judgment: Jehovah’s Witnesses are at risk of being persecuted on religious grounds in Russia

21 January 202117 January 2023

Since religious worship involves the practice of religion, and missionary activity is essential to the practice of Jehovah’s Witnesses, abandoning this in fact constitutes submission to orders of authority that violate t…

Voivodeship Administrative Court: evidence needs to be properly reviewed

23 December 201917 January 2023

The Refugee Board has completely failed to take into account evidence presented by a party pertaining to his political activity and to the treatment of members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan at the hands…

ECtHR: prohibition to deport a person suspected of supporting terrorist due to the risk of torture in Russia

28 February 201928 January 2021

The Association for Legal Intervention provided legal assistance to a Chechen national, N.M., who was to be deported to Russia. In case of his deportation there was a serious suspicion that he could fall victim of tortur…