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No amnesty for ATO participants

22:42, 18.08.2016

Poroshenko vetoed the law on amnesty-2016, which offered amnesty to ATO participants and veterans who have committed less serious war crimes.

It is stated on the website of the Verkhovnaya Rada.

The law provides amnesty to those categories of convicts, who are the most vulnerable, including women and minors, as well as men who have children under 16 or disabled children, disabled people of the 1, 2 and 3 groups, TB and oncological patients, persons who have reached retirement age and combatants who defended the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, persons directly involved in the so-called «ATO".

The main criteria for the application of the amnesty, according to the document, is a minor social danger of the crimes committed by a person serving a sentence, as well as objective factors, such as serious illness and old age.

The law defines the category of convicts to whom the amnesty does not apply. In particular, the amnesty can not be applied to persons ‘who have committed grave and especially grave crimes, as well as to persons who have committed an abuse of their official position (corruption offenses)’.

The amnesty for the ATO participants who have not committed grave crimes, was proposed by the public prosecutor Yuri Lutsenko.

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