Systemic violations of Convention guarantees (ECHR) and comparative standards as illustrated by my case — that of Professor Waldemar Gontarski, attorney‑at‑law — including coercion, through inhuman treatment in detention, to induce me to give false testimony in the Justice Fund case, as well as attempts at unlawful arrest following the lifting of pre‑trial detention, with no preservation of evidence despite my formal complaints — a request to record the identified “red flags” and to provide assistance from the United States (Articles 3, 5, 6, 8 and 18 ECHR; legal professional privilege).
This Memorandum concerns measures taken against me as the former Agent of the Republic of Poland before the Court of Justice of the European Union and a practising attorney‑at‑law. Those measures comprised: (i) violations of my bodily integrity during almost sixteen months of pre‑trial detention, including assaults in a room equipped with a one‑way mirror; (ii) the repeated administration to me, as a detainee, of unauthorised “chemical agents” immediately before interrogations; (iii) the exertion of psychological pressure by intercepting my telephone conversations with defence counsel and seizing correspondence protected by legal professional privilege; (iv) the failure to secure evidence despite my formal criminal complaints; and (v) attempts at unlawful re‑apprehension after the lifting of pre‑trial detention, including two attempts while I was acting in my professional capacity as defence counsel. Taken together with the seven‑day retention of surveillance recordings without any “auto‑hold” safeguard, the entrenched administrative practice of intercepting telephone contact (audio monitoring) and correspondence (seizure of registered letters) with counsel, and the instrumental use of pre‑trial detention in the form of so‑called “extraction detention”, these practices — in light of the standards of the European Court of Human Rights — amount to violations of Articles 3, 5, 6, 8 and 18 of the ECHR, which I have set out in greater detail on the website Gontarski.eu. Following the lifting of my pre‑trial detention, there were two attempts to detain me while I was performing my professional duties as an attorney; this constitutes a form of intimidation by the authorities, which I have addressed publicly on Gontarski.eu.