Rafał Gaweł

Rafał Gaweł is the founder of the Racist and Xenophobic Behaviour Monitoring Centre ( OMZRiK), a Polish anti-racism monitoring group. In 2019 he was sentenced to a two-year prison term. Gaweł was awarded temporary political asylum on 30 September 2020 in Norway. The asylum was granted for three reasons: the lack of the possibility of a fair trial, the lack of Polish authorities' control of extreme-right militias, and the criminal case against him appearing to constitute political persecution by Polish authorities.

Criminal case In 2017, Gaweł and two colleagues were accused of major financial fraud in relation to ThreeRivers and OMZRiK, after having appealed an initial sentence of four years. or in EU member states. One Pole was granted asylum in Norway in 2019, out of 18 EU citizens granted asylum in Norway during 2010–2019.