A group of conservative Russian MPs from the Liberal Democratic Party will present a bill in parliament to abolish prison sentences for those convicted in the Ukrainian territories annexed by Moscow.
The proposal to be submitted to the Lower House of the Russian parliament (Duma) provides for the abolition of the sentences of people who are already imprisoned after being sentenced under the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the Ukrainian territories that were occupied and annexed by the Kremlin. .
In particular, the measure, if approved, could grant freedom to prisoners in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia prisons, whose crimes are not “registered in the Russian Criminal Code”, deputies told the TASS agency.
“The draft federal law establishes that the criminality and punishment of acts committed in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions… Russian Federation”, refers to the document of the Liberal Democratic Party .
The initiative establishes that all people who were detained in the four Ukrainian regions before September 30, the day on which the Russian president decreed the recognition of the independence of the territories, can be released.
“The bill is important to adapt our legislation to the new regions. We adopted a similar law in Crimea when it became a Russian (territory)” in 2014, said deputy Sergey Leonov, one of the bill’s authors.
The chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Legislation has previously pointed out that most of Russia’s federal laws are in force in the newly annexed Russian territories following the Russian invasion that began on February 24.
Source: TSF
