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  • European court condemns UK again over prisoner vote ban

    08/12/2014 7:44:41 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 18 replies
    EUbusiness ^ | 12 August 2014, 12:42 CET | (AFP)
    The European Court of Human Rights condemned Britain once again on Tuesday for banning prisoners from voting, while ruling that inmates who challenged the ban were not entitled to any compensation. The Strasbourg court recognized moves to change the law in Britain, but said the blanket ban remained and was still in breach of the right to free elections enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights. The case was brought by 10 prisoners who were automatically banned from voting in elections to the European Parliament in 2009 because of their incarceration. …