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In the leading case (re detention conditions in France), the Court relied heavily on NPM reports. It also underlined the resocialising impact of prisoners’ work and stressed that general security considerations (non-enclosed toilets) cannot encroach on prisoners’ privacy.
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Prisoners themselves hold the right to freedom of association. Limitation must be exceptional, proportionate, time-bound, and subject to judicial review.
We also recommend positive State obligations: access to detention, protection from reprisals, meaningful participation & equal funding.
Too often, prisoners’ rights associations face repression: denied access to detention, restricted communication, funding limits, and reprisals. We urge the UN Human Rights Committee to recognise them as deserving heightened protection.
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📢 EPLN calls on the UN to strengthen protections for prisoners’ rights organisations!
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🇺🇦 Former prisoners unlawfully deported to Russia face obstacles in returning home, reflecting a failure to recognise them as victims of a war crime.
🇮🇹 A court granted medical release to a prisoner, citing the inability to ensure adequate healthcare due to prison overcrowding.
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🇭🇺 Prisons began publishing house rules online after a civil society campaign involving former prisoners and relatives, improving access to rules on daily life, visits.
🇫🇷 The Constitutional Council upheld a law abolishing postal voting for prisoners in local and legislative elections.
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📢 The CoE Committee of Ministers is reviewing implementation of ECtHR judgments.
Our latest submission highlights urgent structural failings in Ukraine’s prison healthcare: barriers to care, high mortality, and ineffective complaint mechanisms.
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🔹 CoE SPACE II stats show a 2.3% rise in probationers (2023–24).
🔹 CoE CDPC approved the draft revised Recommendation Rec(89)12 on education in prison.
🔹 EU 2025 Ukraine report notes persistent torture in prisons
🔹 EU Civil Society Strategy published!
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🔹 UN CED & WGEID seek input for joint statement on enforced disappearances in transnational repression (by 31 Jan 2026).
🔹EU Commission seeks input for the 2026 EU Justice Scoreboard (by 11 Dec 2025).
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🇬🇧 Recall of a prisoner on licence while serving a determinate sentence: inadmissible.
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🇦🇿 Searches before and after lawyer meetings & seizure of a letter the prisoner had entrusted to his lawyer for posting : violation of Art. 8.
🇷🇺 NGO ordered to remove publications on detention & torture in prison following a defamation action: violation of Art. 10.
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🇲🇩 | Insufficient medical assistance (tooth, kidney): violation of Art 3; regular application of sanctions suspending family visits for over two years: violation of Art 8.
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🇦🇿 | Lawyer disbarred for speaking publicly about client’s ill-treatment : violation of Art 10 & 8, non-examination under Art 18 (joint dissenting opinion of Judges Ktistakis and Pavli).
🇺🇦 | Life-sentenced prisoner awarded only token compensation & ordered to pay fees: violation of Article 6.
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🔹 UN | HRC adopted a resolution on “the human rights implications of drug policy”.
🔹 CoE | Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Protocols.
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🔸UN | Human Rights Committee seeking input for its General Comment on Article 22 ICCPR on Freedom of Association (submit by 19 December)
🔸 CoE | Department for the Execution of ECtHR Judgments to visit Montenegro/Hungary/Belgium.
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🇬🇧 | Recall of a prisoner released on licence while serving a fixed-term determinate sentence: inadmissible (incompatible ratione materiae).
🇸🇰 | Systematic practice of routine, thorough strip searches of a prisoner without convincing security reasons: violation of Article 3.
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🇹🇷 Prisoner with allergic asthma exposed to passive smoking for 1 year and 7 months: violation of Art 3.
🇦🇿 Seizure by prison staff of a letter addressed to a third person entrusted by the prisoner to his lawyer for posting: violation of Art 8.
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