Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017 – Janina Agnieszka Kłosowska; – Lidia Olejnik; Lt. Col. – Paweł Knut; attorney – Mikołaj Pietrzak; attorney – Jerzy Foerster; Ph.D., MD – Com. Bożena Szubińska; – Joanna Klara Żuchowska; Ph.D., MD – Kama Katarasińska-Pierzgalska; – Agnieszka Aleksandra Sikora; – Maria Książak; – Aleksandra Chrzanowska; – Katarzyna Wiśniewska; attorney – Maria Niełaczna; Ph.D. – Aleksandra Iwanowska, Ph.D., co-president (until 01.12.2017); – Karolina Goral, secretary (until 01.12.2017). In 2017 the NMPT Committee did not meet in full composition but in working groups. The first working meeting, held on 31 January, was devoted to thematic visits and focused on psychiatric assistance provided to underage residents of juvenile centres. The objective of the meeting was to summarize visits performed in that respect so far, discuss established problems, diagnose issues that further visits should focus on and prepare planned visits to psychiatric hospitals for children and teenagers13. Another meeting, organized on 18 April focused on the cooperation between the NMPT and the Campaign against Homophobia and concerned the analysis of the situation of LGBT persons in Polish penitentiary establishments14. The last meeting, held on 8 May, concerned, in turn, the conditions in closed detention centres for migrants. What was discussed in the course of the meeting were irregularities determined by the NMPT after visiting those establishments as well as the draft intervention to the Chief Commander of the Border Guard concerning the document entitled: The principles of proceeding with foreigners requiring special treatment by the Border Guard. Another item on the agenda was the so called domestic violence among foreign citizens placed in closed detention centres15. Representatives of the Expert Committee also participated in 17 preventive NMPT visits16 and 6 regional debates organized under the Mechanism17. 13 14 15 16 17 The following Committee members participated in the meeting: Agnieszka Aleksandra Sikora, Joanna Klara Żuchowska Ph.D, MD, and prof. Joanna Klara Żuchowska as well as prof. Marek Konopczyński, D.Sc. Moreover, the meeting was attended by specialists in the field of juvenile psychiatric care Marzenna Habib (Centre for Education Development), Teresa Panas, Ph.D. (Polish Psychological Association), Agnieszka Dąbrowska (Neuropsychiatric Hospital  for Children in Józefów). Paweł Knut, attorney, participated in the meeting on behalf of the Committee. The Committee was represented by: Maria Ejchart-Dubois, Aleksandra Chrzanowska, Comm. Bożena Szubińska, Paweł Knut, attorney. The meeting was also attended by Witold Klaus, D.Sc. – president of the Association for Legal Intervention. Since 2018 Mr. Klaus has been a member of the NMPT Expert Committee. Maria Książak (psychologist) – participation in 2 visits to closed detention centres for migrants; Joanna Klara Żuchowska, Ph.D., MD (internal medicine specialist) – participation in 9 visits (to, inter alia, residential care facilities, social care homes, sobering-up stations); Jerzy Foerster, MD (geriatrist) – participation in 6 visits (to, inter alia, residential care facilities and social care homes). V Regional Debate, 17.01 Wrocław - attorney Katarzyna Wiśniewska (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights) speech: The rights of minors in detention; 11