Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 05/22/2012

Subject: The Grand Chamber judgement, according to which the voting ban imposed on the applicant following a criminal conviction was not disproportionate in the light of the same right provided by the Convention: the Court stated that, unlike what had been stated in the case Hirst (n.2) vs Great Britain in which the Court had asserted the violation of article 3 of the Additional Protocol n. 1, in the Italian legislation the forfeiture of the prisoners‘ right to vote following the criminal conviction is not a general, automatic, nor indiscriminate measure, instead it is adapted to the duration of the conviction and the particularity of the case

Parties: Scoppola c. Italia

Classification: Citizens’ rights