The State Duma adopted in the second and the third and final reading a presidential draft decree on amnesty for the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, according to Tass.
For this decision voted 442 deputies. The document will come into force after the official publication and will be valid for six months.
Under the amnesty would fall, in particular, those first convicted for premeditated crimes small and moderate and having service to the country. In addition, the amnesty extended to minors, women with minor children, and (or) disabled children, single fathers, pregnant women, disabled groups I and II, men over 55 and women over 50 years, as well as cancer patients the third and fourth stages .
With regard to the perpetrators of grave and especially grave crimes, as well as particularly dangerous recidivists, amnesty will not apply. Second reading list of articles, which have not been convicted are subject to the amnesty was extended. “In the list of prohibitive added a number of articles – they relate to vandalism of explosives, trafficking of drugs. Amnesty is not allowed if a person committed a violation of the rules of the road though drunk, though sober, that the violation has resulted in the death of two or more persons “, – said the head of the Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov.
Figurants the most high-profile cases recently – brothers Alex and Oleg Bulk and convicted for “swamp case” – does not become subject to the amnesty, said a member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights Andrei Babushkin.
«All “Bog Lords” has an article 318 – violence against persons protected public order, and that it closes the path to amnesty. Excluded, and Article 159 “fraud”, which was judged by the brothers Navalny “- explained Grandmother.
Also, it is estimated that the amnesty does not will fall ex-head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Yevgeny Vasilyev and ecologist Eugene Vitishko.
The total number of amnesty could reach 350-400 thousand people.
To conduct a broad amnesty for the 70th anniversary of Victory in December 2014 invited the head of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under President Mikhail Fedotov . Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the proposal. However, he noted that “often with amnesties do not need».
Previous broad amnesty was declared in Russia in December 2013. It was timed to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution. From criminal liability then were released more than 24 thousand people.
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