McHugh and Others v. the United Kingdom (no. 51987/08 and 1,014 others) (Birinci Protokol md. 3)

Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi, mahkumlar ve oy verme başvuruları ile ilgili olarak, “oy verme hakkının ihlalini tespit etmiştir.”

McHugh and Others v. the United Kingdom kararı, Birinci Protokol md. 3 (serbest seçim hakkı) ile mahkumlar arasındaki ilişkiyi ele almaktadır.

Burada, 1015 mahkum, mahkumiyetlerinin ve hapis cezası gereği tutukluluk hâllerinin otomatik sonucu olarak seçimlerde oy verememekte olup; bu, somut olay yönünden, Birinci Protokol md. 3’ün ihlalini oluşturur.

McHugh and Others v. the United Kingdom kararı, “http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/” adresinden erişilebilirdir.

McHugh and Others v. the United Kingdom kararının basın duyurusu, “http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/webservices/content/pdf/003-5010996-6151237” adresinden erişilebilirdir.

Bu basın duyurusunun özeti, İngilizce haliyle, aşağıdaki gibidir:

Remaining legacy prisoner voting cases: ECHR finds violation of the right to vote but awards no compensation or legal costs
In today’s Committee judgment in the case of McHugh and Others v. the United Kingdom (no. 51987/08 and 1,014 others), which is final, the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been:
a violation of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections) to the European Convention on Human Rights.
The case concerned 1,015 prisoners who, as an automatic consequence of their convictions and detention pursuant to sentences of imprisonment, were unable to vote in elections. The Court concluded that there had been a violation of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 because the case was identical to other prisoner voting cases in which a breach of the right to vote had been found and the relevant legislation had not yet been amended. It rejected the applicants’ claim for compensation and legal costs.