may not be suspended or restricted save in exceptional circumstances, to be specified by law or lawful regulations, when it is considered indispensable by a judicial or other authority in order to maintain security and good order. 4. Interviews between a detained or imprisoned person and his legal counsel may be within sight, but not within the hearing, of a law enforcement official. 5. Communications between a detained or imprisoned person and his legal counsel mentioned in the present principle shall be inadmissible as evidence against the detained or imprisoned person unless they are connected with a continuing or contemplated crime. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly 43/173 of 9 December 1988: Principle 19. A detained or imprisoned person shall have the right to be visited by and to correspond with, in particular, members of his family and shall be given adequate opportunity to communicate with the outside world, subject to reasonable conditions and restrictions as specified by law or lawful regulations. Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. Excerpts from the CPT 7th General Report [CPT/Inf (97) 10] concerning the deprivation of foreigners – illegal immigrants – of liberty:The right of access to a lawyer should apply throughout the detention period and include both the right to speak with the lawyer in private and to have him present during interviews with the authorities concerned. (…) More generally, immigration detainees should be entitled to maintain contact with the outside world during their detention, and in particular to have access to a telephone and to receive visits from relatives and representatives of relevant organisations. Act of 13 June 2003 on granting protection to foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Poland (Dz.U. of 2003, No 139, item 1472, as amended), Article 89a. The Act of 13 June 2003 on aliens (Dz.U. of 2006, No 234, item 1694) Article 117. Annex to the Ordinance of the Minister of Interior and Administration of 26 August 2004 on the requirements to be met by the guarded centres and deportation centres for foreigners and rules of organization and order of the foreigners' stay in the guarded centres and deportation centres for foreigners (Dz.U. of 2004, No 190, item 1953), entitled “Rules of organisation and order of the foreigners’ stay in the guarded centres and deportation centres for foreigners - Chapter 6. It results from the findings concerning the visited establishments, that in principle, the right of foreigners to see close friends and relatives and to communicate and receive packages has been executed. Foreigners also had telephones located within visited establishments at their disposal. Foreigners staying in the Guarded Centre in Krosno Odrzańskie could also use cell phones that were normally stored in the deposit. They were issued upon the detainee’s request, which was recorded in the event log. Doubts arose as regards the provision of the Art. 20 of the House Rules of the Guarded Centre in Krosno Odrzańskie which limited the right of a foreigner placed in an isolation chamber to written communication. The Commander of the Nadodrzański Border Guard Unit in Krosno Odrzańskie has not referred to this allegation. As regards the course of telephone conversations, irregularities have been found in the Deportation Centre in Lubań. Namely, during the entire phone conversation, the officer was standing by the phone so that he could hear the conversation. It also needs to be noticed that the fact that not only the personal data of a phoning person, but also the personal data of an interlocutor were recorded in the Phone Calls Log and in the case of outgoing calls, also the phone number selected by a detainee. In the opinion of

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