Members of the HRC ask the Prosecutor General to explain the sending of prisoners to war

Members of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights turned to the Prosecutor General of the country Igor Krasnov with a request to clarify the grounds for the liberation of prisoners who participate in the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

The text of the appeal is published on the website of the human rights council of St. Petersburg. In it, human rights activists indicate that by law to release a prisoner who has not served the term of imprisonment, possibly under an amnesty by a resolution of the State Duma, if the presidential decree was pardoned or on parole, the decision is made by the court.

However, as members of the HRC pay attention, recently in the pro -government media, information has been widely distributed about the possibility of the release of prisoners participating in the hostilities in Ukraine. "In connection with the foregoing, we ask you to clarify on what basis these persons are exempted from serving the conclusion, if this information is true," the letter says.

The appeal was signed by Alexander Verkhovsky, Natalya Evdokimova, Igor Kalyapin, Eva Merkacheva, Vladimir Ryakhovsky and Nikolai Svanidze.

• On September 17, Sota reported that the Wagner PMC is conducting a forced set of Russian colonies prisoners to send to Ukraine. The prisoners were promised a full amnesty and a monthly salary of 100 thousand rubles. In war, they must spend at least six months.
• On September 14, the team of Alexei Navalny published a video in his telegram channel, which states, close to Vladimir Putin, businessman Evgeny Prigozhin personally recruits the concluded of the colonies of the Republic of Mari El to the war with Ukraine. The video, apparently, was made on a mobile phone or on a video recorder that FSIN employees are required to wear. In the video, a man similar to Prigozhin, standing in front of the formation of men in prison robes, seems to be a member of the private military company Vagner and talks about the conditions for sending to the war.
• The Wagner PMC is a Russian unofficial military unit that does not appear on the balance of military departments and in the register of legal entities, but its fighters, according to numerous journalistic investigations, take part in the ground operations of the Russian Federation in Syria, Africa and in the war in Ukraine.