During its HR meeting of 12-14 March, the Committee of Ministers decided to end its supervision of the execution of the European Court’s judgment in Ramishvili v. Georgia which concerns the applicant convict’s inability to vote in the 2008 parliamentary elections due to the general, automatic and indiscriminate constitutional ban on prisoners’ voting rights.
In October 2017, the Parliament of Georgia adopted constitutional amendments which entered into force in December 2018 and granted voting rights to all prisoners except for those convicted for a “particularly serious crime”. Already in 2011, constitutional and statutory amendments had provided for the voting rights of prisoners convicted for “crimes of little gravity”.
