It is necessary to “personal petition of the convict for pardon”: the presidential administration responded to the mother Sentsov

To begin the procedure for pardoning Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, he must independently turn to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a corresponding request. The answer to Lyudmila Sentsova, the director of the director, from the Office to ensure the constitutional rights of citizens under the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, gives an independent Ukrainian television channel "Gromadskoye".

“At the same time, we explain that in accordance with the Regulation on the procedure for considering the petitions for pardon ... The pardon procedure begins with a personal petition of the convict for pardon, who appeals to the President of the Russian Federation through the administration of a correctional institution, where he is serving a sentence,” the answer said.

The presidential administration also noted that the request of the mother of Oleg Lyudmila Sentsova was sent to the temporarily acting governor of the Yamalo-Nenets district for his preliminary consideration.

In June, the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported on the need to write a petition on his own: “You know that a procedure is provided for pardon, which is initiated by the convict himself. You need to come from this. ”

However, as the director’s family has long been talking long ago, Oleg Sentsov himself opens against writing a petition for pardon. “Oleg definitely will not write a petition for pardon. I can say that such an answer indicates that Oleg is not going to let go. They still call him a citizen of Russia and made it clear that the mother’s request (approx. - on pardon) did not work, ”commented on the“ Gromadsky ”response of the presidential administration on August 14, Sentsov’s sister Natalya Kaplan.

At the same time, supporters of the Ukrainian director had previously noticed that in Russia there were precedents when pardoned did not write petitions themselves. “In the case of Nadezhda Savchenko, he was not there,” said the film critic Aleksey Medvedev previously reminded. Thus, in March 2016, two relatives of the dead journalists of the VGTRK addressed the president in March 2016.

The lawyers of the defendant of the case of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2013 also assured that the pardoned did not apply with a petition. “He (Khodorkovsky) did not turn (with a request for pardon), and recently we had no information that someone turned for him. We do not have such information, although throughout these years the requests for his pardon from different persons received, ”RIA Novosti quoted his lawyer.

Recall that Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, holding the 93rd day of a hunger strike in support of the Ukrainian political prisoners, is serving a sentence in the White Bear colony in the city of Labytnangi (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). He was convicted of 20 years on charges of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea.

On August 9, the Kremlin stated that they received a letter of pardon from Lyudmila Sentsova - the mother of the Ukrainian director. “I will not convince you of Oleg's innocence, although I believe in it myself. Just say that he did not kill anyone. He has already served in prison for four years. Children are waiting for him, the youngest son suffers from autism. They feel bad without him, ”she wrote.