The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has intervened in the case of a suspect put in pre-trial detention who wanted to attend his father’s funeral. The prosecutor’s office dismissed his motion and the man was unable to attend his father’s funeral. The European Court of Human Rights has already issued rulings against Poland in similar cases. In its judgment in Czarnowski v. Poland, the court held that refusing an inmate the right to attend a funeral, even by way of an escorted leave, had violated the inmate’s rights enshrined in Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life).