Russia's Ban Prohibiting Prisoners from Voting Disputed in ECHR

The ban prohibiting prisoners from voting has been disputed in the European Court of Human Rights, attorney Igor Trunov, who filed the appeal, said. According to the constitution, prisoners are not entitled to take part in elections. According to Trunov, the right to vote should only be deprived in specific crimes as a separate punishment. Those crimes would likely deal with politics, such as extremism, he said. He added that the appeal was filed in the interests of Yevgeny Yartsev, who has been serving a 19-year sentence in a penal colony in the Irkutsk Region.

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