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In the State Duma they want to punish for "calls for execution" decisions
On Monday, April 3, a meeting was held in the State Duma to prepare changes to the legislation prohibiting the activities of the International Criminal Court in Russia. This was reported on the website of the State Duma.
Details. According to the results of the meeting, the State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that the relevant committees will develop amendments to the law on security. The changes will ban the activities of the International Criminal Court and international bodies against the Russian Federation against the Russian Federation and its citizens.
Officials will also ban “public calls” to execute decisions of international bodies, as well as cooperation with them. In addition, the deputies proposed to give the president the powers "to protect Russian citizens in the case of international decisions that contradict Russian legislation."
“It is necessary to provide criminal liability for these crimes. For this purpose, proposals are being prepared to introduce the norms for punishment in the form of fines and imprisonment in the criminal and criminal procedure codes, ”said Volodin.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Irina Yarovaya, Chairman of the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption Vasily Piskarev and the head of the defense committee Andrei Kartapolov.
Context. On March 17, the International Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant of Vladimir Putin and the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Maria Lvova-Belova. “Putin, presumably, is responsible for the illegal deportation of children and the illegal transfer of children from the occupied regions of Ukraine to the Russian Federation,” the document says.
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova said that "the decisions of the International Criminal Court for our country do not matter, including from a legal point of view."
On March 20, the UK opened a criminal case against the prosecutor Mus Karim Ahmad Khan, who filed a petition for the issuance of an arrest warrant of Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvovo-Belova. The department called their criminal prosecution obviously illegal, "since there are no grounds for prosecution."
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