Soyler, a Turkish national sentenced to five years for drawing cheques without having sufficient funds, brought the suit after he was not allowed to vote in the 2011 Turkish general elections even after his conditional release from prison in 2009. Turkish law dictates that convicted persons are unable to vote while serving their sentences, with disenfranchisement continuing until the end of the period of the original sentence, regardless of early release from prison on probation. A unanimous court found that the automatic and indiscriminate ban on prisoners' voting rights violated Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which ensures the right to free elections, and 'had to be seen as falling outside any acceptable margin of manoeuvre of a state to decide on such matters as the electoral rights of convicted prisoners'. The judgment will become final after three months, if a party does not request further examination from the ECHR's Grand Chamber, according to the report. Full Jurist report