Russian senators Andrey Klishas and Olga Kovitidi have drafted a bill on pardoning convicts for participating in hostilities, Kovitidi says in a post on her Telegram channel.
“If a convict demonstrates courage and heroism in the line of duty, a conscientious attitude towards their military service duties, thus, proving their rehabilitation, then upon command’s report, courts can release them from serving their sentence or the remaining part of their sentence, by clearing their record or replacing the remaining part of the punishment with a more lenient one,” the senator wrote in her post.
According to Kovitidi, the bill applies to people who committed crimes of small and medium gravity. She also said that the [potential] law would not apply to convicts sentenced under articles on violating rules of conducting protests, on calls for or participation in mass disorders, on “discreditation” of Russia’s Armed Forces, on propaganda of Nazi symbols, on calls for imposing sanctions against Russia, and on “fake news” about Russia’s Armed Forces.