According to a report on the Kremlin’s website, among the pardoned women are women with minor children, pregnant women, as well as those whose relatives are participating in the war in Ukraine. No other details of the decree are given.
Earlier, Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Civil Society Development and Human Rights Council, asked the president to pardon women convicted of non-violent crimes who have minor children.
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She described cases where women who had just given birth were separated from their children and returned to detention facilities. E. Merkacheva called such situations “nonsense”. According to the human rights activist, the amnesty may affect about 25,000 prisoners.
“I would like to ask for clemency for all women who have young children and are suspected or already convicted of non-violent crimes. <...> And in general, I am asking you to forgive all women who have committed non-violent crimes for the first time, in which there are no victims or who do not object to their release”, said E. Merkacheva during the council meeting with V. Putin in December.
The chairman of the Human Rights Council, Valerijus Fadeevs, previously noted that in 2024 possible amnesty for certain categories of prisoners, noting that amnesties are an important “humanistic signal to society”.
According to the Federal Prison Service, on January 1 last year. There were 433 thousand people in Russian prisons. people. The women are in general-regime correctional colonies with 13 children’s homes.
According to the data of the Service, in 2021 There were 42,000 women in Russian prisons. Later, data on the gender composition of the prisoners and the crimes committed by them were no longer published on the website of the service.
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2024-04-16 07:40:38