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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head> <body> <div style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify"> <table width="800" border="0" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:5px;" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <br /> <br /><br /> Global power play spills into Russian court<br /><br /> - (19 Apr 2016)<br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.ksrf.ru/en/Decision/Judgments/Documents/2016_April_19_12-P.pdf">Execution of ECHR judgment in Anchugov and Gladkov v. Russia</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#FDEDCE"><strong>Russia’s Constitutional Court ruled against acceding to a European Court of Human Rights denouncement against Russian law that prohibits prisoners from exercising their voting rights while imprisoned.<BR><BR> The ECHR had stated in an earlier order that disenfranchisement was a disproportional sanction and there did not exist a discernible link between electoral exclusion and the conduct of the individual concerned. Being indiscriminate and automatic, the practice was contradictory to the International Convention on Human Rights and Basic Freedoms. <BR><BR> Russia’s court was succinct in its ruling, terming it “impossible” to execute the ECHR judgment and effecting amendment in the Russian constitution. Though the severity of the offence could convince a judge to reconsider application of the penalty, the two citizens embroiled in the instant case would not be granted such amnesty due to the graveness of their crimes.</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Tags : russia, constitution, disenfranchisement, echr, prisoner rights</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <!--<td><strong>Source : <a target="_new" href="http://www.manupatrafast.com/">newsroom.manupatra.com</a></strong></td>--> <td align="left" valign="top"><strong>Source : newsroom.manupatra.com</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Regards</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Team Manupatra</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>