The Rada has adopted the Law on Amnesty: 10,000 prisoners will be released

The Verkhovna Rada has adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Amnesty” in its entirety. 294 people's deputies out of 394 registered in the session hall voted in favour of adopting the corresponding decision.

The law provides for the release from punishment in the form of imprisonment for a certain term and from other punishments not related to imprisonment for those convicted of intentional crimes that are not grave or especially grave, and for crimes committed by negligence that are not especially grave.

In particular, it is provided to release persons who were minors at the time of the commission of the crime; women pregnant on the day of the entry into force of this law; persons not deprived of parental rights who, on the day of the entry into force of this law, have children under 18 years of age or children with disabilities regardless of their age; persons who, on the day of the entry into force of this law, are recognized in the prescribed manner as persons with disabilities of the first, second, or third group, as well as those suffering from active forms of tuberculosis, oncological diseases, etc.

Under the amnesty, there also fall men and women who, on the day of the entry into force of this law, have reached the age of 60 and 55, respectively; veterans of war (combatants, war invalids, and participants of the war who fall under the Law of Ukraine “On the Status of War Veterans, Guarantees of Their Social Protection”) and others.


It is also provided to release from punishment in the form of imprisonment for a certain term and from other punishments not related to imprisonment persons convicted of intentional crimes for which the law provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, if, on the day of the entry into force of this law, they have served at least half of the assigned term of the main punishment.


The decision on the application or non-application of amnesty is made by the court regarding each person individually after a thorough check of the materials of the personal file and information about the convict's behaviour during the serving of the punishment. Such a person is summoned to a court hearing and may give explanations. Non-appearance of this person does not stop the consideration of the case.


As “Segodnya” reports, according to the calculations of the authors of the adopted law, about 10,000 prisoners will be released.
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