In cases concerning the UK, Russia, Turkey and Bulgaria, the ECtHR has repeatedly ruled that the blanket prohibition of voting rights for prisoners is in violation of the ECHR. However, blanket voting bans are still applied to prisoners (following criminal offences) in a number of CoE member states (e.g. Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Russia, and Turkey). After the UK had not been willing to implement ECtHR decisions for many years, the blanket removal of voting rights of prisoners serving a custodial sentence was repealed there in 2018.