Statements of the NMPT: a tool for building the attitude of non-tolerance towards torture and cruel or degrading treatment The prohibition of torture is unconditional and not subject to any limitations. Torture is one of the gravest violations of human rights, it constitutes an assault on human dignity and degrades the society which accepts it. Since 2017 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture has been using an educational tool in the form of NMPT statements. The statements present the NMPT’s positions on events significant from the point of view of torture prevention. Such events may include the passing of a ruling by a national court or the ECHR, media announcements or adoption of a legislative act. In 2018 the NMPT issued 5 statements that were published on the NMPT website and concerned: the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on the case Sidiropoulos and Papakostas v. Greece (application no. 33349/10); a judgment of a Polish court which, in the verbal statement of grounds, for the first time referred to the definition of torture; a judgment of the ECtHR on the case Danilczuk v. Cyprus (application no. 21318/12); the case of torture of Tomasz Komenda; as well as the disclosed case of torture at a police station in Siedlce and the related court judgment5. The NMPT social campaign state without torture 30 years ago Poles clearly demonstrated that they wanted to live in a free independent country. Now it is time to strongly say No for torture, to feel ultimately safe and not to hesitate to say that Poland is a state without torture. See:  https://www.rpo.gov.pl/tagi/o%C5%9Bwiadczenia-krajowego-mechanizmu-prewencji-tortur 5 Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2018 15