nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20171030-225743 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 171030s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20171030-225743 doi eng 342 23 Dzehtsiarou, Kanstantsin Author aut Prisoner Voting and Power Struggle: a Never-Ending Story? Dzehtsiarou, Kanstantsin Verfassungsblog 2017-10-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 29 October 2017, it was announced that the UK authorities are planning to revoke the blanket ban on prisoner voting and allow those who are sentenced to under a year in prison to go home for a day and vote. This was done to ensure the compliance with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Hirst No 2 which was delivered in 2005. It took the UK government twelve years to come up with a proposal that would put English law in line with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Hirst v. UK Prisoner's right to vote Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/prisoner-voting-and-power-struggle-a-never-ending-story/ raw object