Members of the Human Rights Council turned to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request to indicate the grounds for release from punishment of prisoners who are recruited to participate in the war. The appeal was published on the website of the Human Rights Council.
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As the authors of the letter noted, the Besogon TV program of August 7 said that “thousands of prisoners” throughout Russia who had not served their sentences, including serious crimes, sent to fight in Ukraine. At the same time, there are three reasons in the law for the release of a convicted person from punishment: pardon, amnesty and parole. They can be appointed by the president, the State Duma and the court.
“In connection with the foregoing, we ask you to explain on what basis these persons are released from serving their sentences if this information is true?” Members of the HRC wrote.
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Mediazona told in detail how prisoners are recruited to take part in the invasion of Ukraine, promising pardon. The convicts said that businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin personally visits some colonies for this purpose. By autumn, only a few deaths of prisoners are publicly known. 44-year-old Yevgeny Eremenko was buried in Petrozavodsk, The Insider reported the death near Donetsk of the head of an organized criminal group near Moscow, sentenced to 25 years. «mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />« We were promised that six months and an amnesty.” Mediazona spoke with a prisoner who joined Wagner PMC