The right to vote and human rights

In the UK it has always been a hot potato when it comes to if prisoners should be allowed to vote, as both main political parties have looked in to the issue and decided it could cost them significant of votes if they decided upon doing such a thing.

Now a lot of member states of the European Council grant prisoners the right to vote as they see prison as the deprivation of liberty not removing the right does not fall in to step with that decision on those states ideals.

For a little background on the European Council it was set up shortly after the war and took the Nuremberg principles for building blocks on, they came up with, they came up with 17 in principle covering a wide range of ideas. They knew that some would clash with others when cases were brought so they implemented qualifying statements for each law for example;

Article 10 of freedom of speech stats the qualifying statements that read as follows;

“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.