People in prison should have the same right to vote as other people, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled, obliging Britain to give 77,000 prisoners the right to participate in local and general elections.
The case before the Strasbourg court was brought in 2003 by a 54 year-old former prisoner, John Hirst, convicted of manslaughter in 1980.
When denied the vote from prison, he first claimed his right to "take part in the democratic process" in the UK's High Court and los...
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