The Court has accepted the referral to the Grand Chamber of the case Vainik and Others v. Estonia.

The case concerns the total ban on smoking in prisons in Estonia from October 2017. The four applicants in the case, prisoners at the time, complained both about the ban itself and the withdrawal symptoms they had had.

The Court has also decided to reject a request to refer eight other cases.

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• Cases pending before the Grand Chamber