The beast is in the Wrong

The presidential administration refuses to amnesty the "swamp prisoners." This was reported in his blog on the "Echo of Moscow" leader of the Movement for Human Rights Lev Ponomarev, who published the response of the Kremlin administration to the appeal of human rights activists calling for an amnesty to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution.

First of all, the authors of the appeal considered it necessary to extend an amnesty to the "swamp prisoners", to activists with Arctic Sunrise, as well as to convicts under articles 159 (fraud), 160 (assignment or embezzlement) and 201 Criminal Code (abuse of powers) who did not fall under the summer economic amnesty.

The response from the presidential administration notes that Article 84 of the Criminal Code, describing the order of amnesties, resolves the application of such a measure only in relation to an individually unrefined circle of persons. “In this regard,” they conclude in the Kremlin, “the announcement of an amnesty regarding specific persons (events) seems unacceptable.”

In addition, officials recall that amnesties are not subject to faces aimed at compulsory treatment. Meanwhile, it is known that the court appointed just such a measure to the “swamp prisoner” by Mikhail Kosenko.

Finally, the presidential administration says, the accused of crimes that pose an increased danger to society are not subject to amnesties. At the same time, the mass riots, imputed by all, without exception, the defendants of the "swamp business" belong to the category of these crimes.

Kremlin officials opposed the proposals of Ponomarev , a project prepared by the Presidential Council for Human Rights. "These proposals are posted on the official website of the Council on the Internet and transferred to the head of state," the letter says.

On the same day , a letter of relatives of the "swamp prisoners" Putin was published with a request to approve the project of a wide amnesty.

At the end of October, the Swedish Riksdag turned to the State Duma and the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with official letters, in which he urged the Russian political prisoners. The deputies expressed the hope that the Russian authorities will be able to neutralize an acute civil confrontation, abandoning the escalation of political violence.

Meanwhile, Ponomarev wrote in his post: "Probably, many have noticed that officials have recently ceased to talk about a possible amnesty, although it would seem that it was the time to introduce an amnesty project to the State Duma, since the 20th anniversary of the Constitution is already close."