A convicted rapist prevented from voting in the UK's 2019 general election did not suffer a breach of his rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of Hora v. the United Kingdom, the court unanimously held that there had been no
Prisoner Voting
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled again that the UK's blanket ban preventing serving prisoners from voting represents a violation of article 3 of protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the right to free elections. The court declined, however, to a