Putin offered an amnesty for 260,000 people – TVNZ

More than 260 thousand people may be affected by the amnesty to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the draft of which Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma.

The draft resolution is expected to announce an amnesty for suspects and charged with crimes and convicted (as well as the first convicted of deliberate crimes of small and moderate and have certain services to the country):

– on the persons involved in the fighting to defend the Fatherland, to perform military or call of duty in Afghanistan or elsewhere, where operations were conducted (124 people)

– on the military, law enforcement, civilian personnel involved in the war in Chechnya and counter-terrorist operations in the North-Caucasus (23 people )

– on Chernobyl (3 people)

– Juvenile (100)

– women with minor children or disabled children, pregnant women (867 person)

single men with minor children or children with disabilities (40)

– men over 55 and women over 50 years (600)

– disabled groups I and II, patients with tuberculosis and cancer (478).

provides an exemption from punishment:

– sentenced to prison up to five years inclusive who have committed crimes of negligence (3,300 people),

– Juveniles sentenced for up to five years inclusive for premeditated crimes, previously serving deprivation of liberty (400).

The most impressive part of the freedom to receive this amnesty – convicted, the unserved part of the punishment which leaves less than one year (up to 50 thousand people).

exemption from punishment to be “conditionally convicted, condemned, which left part of punishment replaced with a milder penalty or serving sentence which delayed condemned to punishment not involving deprivation of liberty “(up to 200 thousand people).

Amnesty aims to reduce certain categories of prisoners unserved part of the sentence, release prisoners subject amnesty from other forms of punishment, removal from their criminal records. Will be halted pending before the criminal cases of crimes covered by the amnesty.

However, excluded the application of amnesty to persons who “have committed grave and especially grave crimes (murder, violent crimes, terrorism, extremism, kidnapping, fraud , bribery, crimes against minors, crimes related to drug trafficking), as well as to convicts who have committed a crime by a particularly dangerous recidivist, to persons who have committed a crime in the past ten years after his release from prison in accordance with the regulations of the pardon or amnesty to persons who have committed a deliberate crime again in prison, and the worst offenders to the established order of punishment “.