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The Presidential Council for Human Rights sent a draft amnesty to Vladimir Putin to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the council of Mikhail Fedotov. “I signed the cover letter and sent it to the head of state,” Fedotov said. “The text of these sentences will be posted on the Council website tomorrow.”

On Friday, the draft amnesty was approved at a meeting of the HRC . “A decision was made to conduct a wide amnesty,” said Kirill Kabanov, a member of the Council of Council of Council in Legal Reform. “The meaning of a wide amnesty is that this is the exclusion of those compositions that will not be included in amnesty, and not inclusion in the amnesty of the compositions. That is, another approach: not selective amnesty, but a wide amnesty.”

Under the advice approved by the Council, the amnesty is falling into non -violent crimes, Kabanov noted. Thus, the defendants in the "swamp business" and Pussy Riot participants will be able to go to amnesty.

The project was developed jointly by standing commissions for civil participation in legal reform and the promotion of the PMC and reform of the penitentiary system.

Also, the appeal of the "Swamp Prisoners" was made by writers - members of the Russian Pen -Center.

The need to expand the amnesty , including convicted, accused and suspects in cases related to political motives, the group of human rights activists and cultural figures announced the day before. On the site "For Human Rights", signatures are collected under the appropriate appeal .

On September 26, Putin instructed the HRC to submit proposals on the announcement of an amnesty in connection with the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of Russia.

Putin promised to think about announcing an amnesty for the 20th anniversary of the Constitution at a meeting of the HRC on September 4. With a request to declare an amnesty for prisoners, the chairman of the council Mikhail Fedotov addressed the president.

“Let's think about the amnesty,” Putin said. “Everything is for amnesty, as I understand it, but this is the normal reaction of the people who gathered here.” Putin noted that the reduction in the number of prisoners is an extremely important social problem. “I agree to think about it with you. It’s not a matter when people are holding for insignificant offenses without any perspective,” the president emphasized.

Fedotov proposed to exempt from criminal liability of all who committed non -violent crimes in the past. According to him, this "will bring the line under the era of revolution, wars, wild capitalism." Fedotov noted that the level of relapse among amnestied does not reach five percent. "The effectiveness of the amnesty can still be increased by providing measures to re -socialize amnestied," Fedotov said.

On September 19, Putin said that he did not exclude amnesties for the defendants in the "swamp business" . At the same time, the head of state emphasized that the investigation and the court must determine whether there were mass riots on the swamp. “No need to blackmail the power by the fact that she will be glued by Yarmo unfinished,” Putin added.

On July 2, State Duma deputies adopted a decree on the economic amnesty . The initial draft of the amnesty decree was subjected to significant changes. The list of falling for liberation was reduced by eight times. So, a item was added, which brought from the action of the amnesty repeatedly convicted. Thus, the liberation of the convicts twice Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev became impossible.