The state Duma declared Amnesty

The state Duma declared an Amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of Victory in great Patriotic war on April 24. The effect of large-scale presidential project affected 350-400 thousand people.

Deputies of the state Duma said on April 24, as it was planned earlier, Amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war, reports "Interfax". At the plenary meeting of the parliamentarians discussed a large-scale presidential project immediately in the 2nd and 3rd readings.

Amnesty for the 70th anniversary of the Victory was the 19th in a row. Since 1994, the result of such acts from places of deprivation of liberty was released 306 thousand people. Current Amnesty will release from prison 60 thousand prisoners, in other words every tenth. Others who had been granted Amnesty condemned conditionally.

Professionals say that despite the massive release of prisoners, afraid of an explosion of crime should not - unsafe for society convicts will remain under lock and key. In today's edition of the Amnesty, according to experts, found the perfect balance between humanism and safety.

One of the key features of this Amnesty is its social trend, wrote Days.Ru. The government had the humanity to begin to the most defenseless and vulnerable prisoners under the age of majority, women with young children and children with disabilities, pregnant women, persons close to retirement age, the disabled and cancer patients. For the first time the Amnesty will include and single fathers with young children or children with disabilities (numbering 40 people).

The other aspect is that past achievements of prisoners to the state. Under the Amnesty are those who are in arms to protect their country, veterans of the Afghan war and other participants of hostilities abroad, the participants of anti-terrorist campaigns in the North Caucasus, also the liquidators of Chernobyl and suffer from radiation exposure in the tragedy of the face.

However, the largest group - about 50 thousand people is a person who has actually "done" and which was to serve time for less than a year.

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