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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 10d

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 10d

🔍 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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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 10d

📢 Our April–June 2025 compilation of European Domestic Prison Legal News is out! It covers key prison-related legal developments in 14 EU countries + 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 🇷🇺.

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 16d

🇹🇷 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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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 16d

🇮🇹 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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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!
It covers key July-August 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on prison-related issues.

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 24d

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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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 24d

⚒️ 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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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · 24d

EPLN & Public Verdict submitted reports to the 78th session of the UN CESCR, highlighting severe violations of prisoners’ rights in Russia.

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⚕️ Healthcare: prisoners denied timely treatment, continuity of care obstructed, torture concealed.
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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Our compilation of European Prison Case Law covering April–June 2025 is now available in 16 languages.
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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔍 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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We campaign for prisoners’ right to access legal information, legal representation and legal aid, and strive to protect prisoners from reprisal for engaging in litigation. These rights are essential…

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔍 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)

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Sep 1

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Aug 6

🇵🇱 Routine full searches of a “dangerous detainee” — already under heavy surveillance — whenever entering/exiting cell for 20 months: violation of Art 3.

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Aug 6

🇹🇷 Refusal to dispatch a 10-page letter to a prisoner’s fiancée, based on a single paragraph & despite written correspondence being only means of contact: violation of Art 8.

🇺🇦 No free dentures provided to a prisoner despite eligibility, due to legal & financial barriers: violation of Art 3.

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 Our latest European prison case law compilation is out!

It contains key June 2025 judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on detention-related issues!

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Opinion:
▪️ Highlights the vulnerability of civilian prisoners under occupation
▪️ Reinforces protections under IHRL & IHL
▪️ Affirms that the ban on arbitrary detention applies even during armed conflict
🔗 Read Opinion No. 34/2025: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 31

Brought by EPLN & Protection for Prisoners of Ukraine, the case concerned 6 men detained in Kherson Oblast, later forcibly transferred to Russia, held incommunicado, and had their sentence “converted” under Russian law.

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢 Landmark Opinion by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD): Russia’s detention and transfer of 6 Ukrainian prisoners after the full-scale invasion violated international law & standards.
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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 3

"Facing overcrowding and inadequate psychiatric care, the prison system is under strain. But instead of offering relief, or even amnesties and pardons like her predecessors, Meloni is pressing harder."

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Giorgia Meloni wants more people in jail. Italy’s prisons are already on the brink.

Rome’s sweeping new security decree looks set to put more people behind bars, but overcrowded prisons can’t cope.

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 3

💥 Prison news
🔹 CoE: Our summary of CMCE decisions on the implementation of ECtHR judgments on prisoners’ rights in 🇫🇷/🇭🇺/🇱🇻/🇳🇱/🇵🇹/🇺🇦
🔹 CoE: New ECtHR judge elected in respect of 🇬🇧

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 3

📖 Read our latest issue!
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This month’s highlights include:

💥 Advocacy
🔸 UN: Input on 🇦🇹 & 🇬🇪 for next UPR (by 17 July)
🔸 CoE: Input on ECtHR judgments implementation in 🇧🇬/🇨🇾/🇬🇷/🇷🇴/🇷🇺/🇹🇷/🇺🇦 (by 28 July)
🔸 EU: Input for Civil Society Strategy (by 5 Sept)

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jul 3

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jun 25

🇩🇰 Death of prisoner after 13 mins in prone leg lock: violation of Art 2

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European Prison Litigation Network @europepln.bsky.social · Jun 25

📢 Out now: our May 2025 European prison case law roundup!
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🔍In this issue:
🇷🇺 Journalist penalised after reporting on prison ill-treatment, an issue of "general interest": violation of Art 10

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