foreigners in a deportation centre in a language they understand. It includes, among others, the list of addresses of authorities, institutions and non-governmental organizations dealing with foreigner issues, as well as other information concerning rights and obligations applicable to detainees. The House Rules concerning deportation centre cells were displayed immediately after the visit. The Commander of the Border Guard Unit in Lubań confirmed reservations of visitors as regards low activity of external entities in the scope of supplying materials for foreigners to Deportation Centres and Guarded Centres and indicated that the Deportation Centre in Szczecin had not received any information materials from institutions and non-governmental organisations providing assistance to foreigners for a considerable amount of time. Officers of the Deportation Centre in Lubań singlehandedly undertook actions for the delivery of brochures and materials to foreigners. This action resulted in providing detainees with: a “REFUGEE” newspaper, information materials of IOM (Voluntary Return Programme) in foreigners mother tongues, information materials of CARITAS (”Help to migrants and refugees”), as well as information materials of Halina Nieć Legal Aid Centre. d) Right to contact state, non-governmental and diplomatic institutions and the right to contact/see friends and relatives and an attorney European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (open for signature on 4 November 1950, Dz.U. 1993, No 61, item 284) Art. 8.1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly 43/173 of 9 December 1988: Principle 16.1 Promptly after arrest and after each transfer from one place of detention or imprisonment to another, a detained or imprisoned person shall be entitled to notify or to require the competent authority to notify members of his family or other appropriate persons of his choice of his arrest, detention or imprisonment or of the transfer or of the place where he is kept in custody. 2. If a detained or imprisoned person is a foreigner, he shall also be promptly informed of his right to communicate by appropriate means with a consular post or the diplomatic mission of the State of which he is a national or which is otherwise entitled to receive such communication in accordance with international law or with the representative of the competent international organisation, if he is a refugee or is otherwise under the protection of an intergovernmental organisation. 3. If a detained or imprisoned person is a juvenile or is incapable of understanding his entitlement, the competent authority shall on its own initiative undertake the notification referred to in the present principle. Special attention shall be given to notifying parents or guardians. 4. Any notification referred to in the present principle shall be made or permitted to be made without delay. The competent authority may however delay a notification for a reasonable period where exceptional needs of the investigation so require. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly 43/173 of 9 December 1988: Principle 18.1 A detained or imprisoned person shall be entitled to communicate and consult with his legal counsel. 2. A detained or imprisoned person shall be allowed adequate time and facilities for consultations with his legal counsel. 3. The right of a detained or imprisoned person to be visited by and to consult and communicate, without delay or censorship and in full confidentiality, with his legal counsel