🇬🇧 Recall of a prisoner on licence while serving a determinate sentence: inadmissible.

⚖️ CJEU
State may refuse to execute EAW only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld on criminal-policy grounds, even if reintegration considerations favour transfer.

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🔎 In this issue:

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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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💥 Prison news

🔹 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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💥 Advocacy

🔸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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⚖ CJEU
🇷🇴/🇮🇹 | The executing State may refuse to execute an EAW & assume responsibility for the enforcement of the sentence only with the issuing State’s consent, which may be withheld for criminal policy considerations
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⚖ ECtHR
🇬🇧 | 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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🔍 Highlights from this edition:
📌 🇮🇹 harsher penalties incl. for 'prison riots'
📌 🇫🇷 launches new high-security prison regime, modelled on 🇮🇹 41bis
📌 🇦🇹 widens conditional release & electronic monitoring
📌 🇩🇪 courts confirm full power to review shackling prisoners
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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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🇮🇹 Unjustified limitation of applicant’s right to correspondence during special regime detention: violation of Art 8.

🇷🇺 Prisoners’ rights organisation ordered to delete and refute online publications made on ill-treatment & torture in a correctional colony for women: violation of Art 10.
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We urge the CESCR to press Russia to:
📌 Transfer prison healthcare to the Ministry of Health;
📌 Abolish forced labour and allow unionisation;
📌 End the forced recruitment of prisoners for war.

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⚒️ Forced labour: unsafe, degrading work for poverty wages; reprisals for refusal; no union rights.

⚔️ Military recruitment: "predatory recruitment” sends prisoners to Ukraine, exploiting vulnerability, exposing them to violence and rendering them complicit in war crimes.
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🔍 This month’s prison news:

🔹 CoE | Prison statistics 2024 show rising prison population rates & "the potential beginning of a new phase in European penal policy".

🔹 CoE | CPT reports on 🇲🇹, 🇮🇪 & 🇪🇸.

🔹 EU | New Toolkit for the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Prisons.

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🔍 This month’s advocacy highlights:

💥 UN | Input sought by the SRT for her report on “experiences and perspectives of victims and survivors of torture” (by 22 September)

💥 CoE | DEJ country visits: 🇭🇷 (9–10 Sept) & 🇱🇻 (8–9 Oct)

💥 EU | Input sought for the EU Civil Society Strategy (by 5 September)