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Pregnant women and lone fathers were proposed to arrest in exceptional cases
The government approved the ban on arresting pregnant women, women with young children, lone fathers and trustees of young children. An exception should be “individual cases” like an accusation of a serious crime or lack of residence in Russia, RBC said with reference to the bill proposed by the Ministry of Justice.
Now the arrest restriction is valid only for minors, and the exception is any crimes of at least moderate severity, the punishment for which exceeds three years of the colony.
Initially, amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure in the summer of 2023 were introduced by the Supreme Court. They already contained a proposal to limit the number of reasons for the arrest of women with young children, the publication said. The exception was proposed to be made the same as for minors.
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It is stronger to expand the list of categories of people who cannot be applied in custody against whom it is impossible to apply, the Ministry of Justice suggested. According to the amendments of the department, minors, pregnant women, women with children under 14 years of age, single fathers, adoptive parents, guardians and trustees of young children and disabled children can be arrested if they “violated the previously elected preventive measure, disappeared from the preliminary investigation or from the court , do not have a place of residence or place of stay in Russia, their identity is not established. ”
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In the initial text of the amendments proposed by the Supreme Court, the norm remains, according to which the application of arrest should only be limited by crimes of a violent nature. However, it is proposed to leave the arrest relevant for suspects or accused of a crime of any severity that are trying to hide or violate the conditions of a chosen preventive measure.
The authors of the amendments of the Ministry of Justice suggested, in addition to the severity of the crime, to take into account whether the violence or the threat of its use took place. Also, and the bill has a provision on the ban on the arrest of people suffering from serious diseases, "confirmed by medical documents."
The State Duma adopted a bill in the version of the Supreme Court in the first reading in the fall of 2023, writes RBC. The publication gives statistics, according to which in 2022 only 5% of the arrested were accused of committing crimes of minor gravity, 27% - moderate, and 68% were accused of serious and especially serious crimes. 2% of the arrested were women with young children.
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