Click here for Grand Chamber Judgment (approximately 47 pages); click here for press release (approximately 5 pages)

On October 21, 2013, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Del Río Prada v. Spain that Spain violated Article 7 (no punishment without law) and Article 5 § 1 (no unlawful detention) of the European Convention on Human Rights.  According to the press release, Ms. Inés del Río Prada, who was convicted of perpetrating multiple terrorist attacks between 1982 and 1987, had complained that a new sentencing approach adopted by the Supreme Court after her sentencing resulted in the date of her release being postponed by almost nine years.  The Grand Chamber ordered Spain to release Ms. del Río Prada at the earliest date possible and to pay her 30,000 euros in non-pecuniary damages and 1,500 euros in costs and expenses.