Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 Przemysław Kazimirski – a  lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin. Since 2002, he has been working in the Office of the Human Rights Defender – initially at the Executive Criminal Law Unit, later, since 2008 he has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism. He represents the NPM in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries Ombudsman Cooperation 2009–2013. Michał Kleszcz – a lawyer, graduate of the University of Silesia and of Postgraduate Studies in Economic and Commercial Law. A  trainee solicitor since 2011. Employed in the HRD Office since 2007. Since 2008, he has participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Field Plenipotentiary of the Human Rights Defender in Katowice. Natalia Kłączyńska – a doctor of legal sciences of the University of Wrocław, university teacher. Employed in the HRD Office since 2005. She has participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Field Plenipotentiary of the Human Rights Defender in Wrocław. Dorota Krzysztoń – a criminologist, graduate of the University of Warsaw. A long-time civil servant, involved in the protection of the civil rights and a mediator in criminal cases. Since 2011, she has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Marcin Kusy – a lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin and of the School of Human Rights and Freedoms at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has extensive knowledge of American law; holder of a certificate of Chicago Kent College of Law. Interested in case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and anti-discrimination law. Since 2008, he has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Justyna Lewandowska – Director of the National Preventive Mechanism Department in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. A lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw. In 2007, she completed the prosecutor’s apprenticeship in Warsaw, and since 2010 she has been a member of the Warsaw Bar Association. A  long-time employee of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. When at the Foundation, she focused on the rights of persons deprived of their liberty, of persons using psychoactive drugs, and of those living with HIV/AIDS. In 2007 and 2008, she was a member of the team working to amend the Act on prevention of drug abuse and certain other acts. The team was appointed by the Minister of Justice. Małgorzata Molak – a graduate of social rehabilitation, with a major in rehabilitation and family support, at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. In 2011 she completed postgraduate studies in the field of 82