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Member of the Sixth Term European Parliament.

Born on 9th March 1995 in Rybnik.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Wrocław in 1978, and in 1980 he completed a postgraduate course in Ethnics and Religious Studies there. Between 1992 and 1996 he completed doctoral studies at the School of Social Sciences at the Philosophy and Sociology Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1993 and 1994 he was a fellow on New School University in New York.
From 1978 to 1980 worked in the International Operations Department of the National Bank of Poland in Wrocław. Since 1992 lectures in the University of Economics in Wrocław.
In 1980 he organized the structures of the Solidarity Trade Union in Lower Silesia, and in 1981 he was elected a member of the regional executive council and the financial spokesperson. He is famous for having withdrawn 80 million złoty from the accounts of the trade union on 3 December 1981, thus saving this money from seizure by the communist authorities. The money was later deposited with the metropolitan bishop Henryk Gulbinowicz and was used for establishing the underground structures of Solidarity. After 13th December 1981 he was one of the leaders of the underground Solidarity, represented Lower Silesia in the Provisional Coordination Committee. Being wanted under warrant, he went into hiding. Between 1983 and 1988 he was arrested and imprisoned a number of times. In 1984 and 1988, he was Amnesty International's prisoner of conscience.
Between 2002 and 2004 he held the position of Plenipotentiary for European Referendum and European Affairs.
In 2011 he was awarded Commander's Cross with Star of Order of Polonia Restituta.
In the Sixth Term European Parliament was a deputy chairman of the Human Rights Subcommittee.
In 1987 he was one of the founders of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), and in 1988 – PPS–RD. He also belonged to the Labour Union, where he was a vice-chairman for European affairs (1998 to 1999). Currently he has no party affiliation.
Married, has two children.