Article 7 - No punishment without law
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Lo Sicco v. Italy, no. 14417/09
Criminal conviction of the applicant for the allegedly unforeseeable offence of external participation in a mafia-type association.
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Daci v. Albania, no. 5232/24
Foreseeability of the legal basis of a former judge’s criminal conviction of falsification of a document.
Judgment
Asciutto and Others v. Italy, nos. 23169/16 and 3 others
Application to the applicants of the irreducible ergastolo ostativo life imprisonment regime under the 1992 version of section 4 bis of the Prison Administration Act, according to which prisoners convicted for mafia-related crimes who refused to cooperate with the judicial authorities were not entitled to parole.
Judgment
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- No punishment without law (no. CDH(70)10)
- No punishment without law (no. DH(57)6)
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