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Rights ombudsman hopes amnesty bill will be adopted without major changes

He noted that the draft concerns not only defendants and convicts who are serving their term but also persons who have already served their time
Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin ITAR-TASS/Alexei Nikolsky
Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin
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MOSCOW, December 06. /ITAR-TASS/. Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said he was hopeful that the amnesty law drafted by the Human Rights Council would be adopted without major changes.

“The proposed text is one of the best versions of amnesty over the past two decades both in terms of outreach and thoroughness. Some of the concrete provisions can and should be specified of course, but without conceptual changes to the document as a whole,” Lukin said in a statement on Thursday, December 5.

He noted that the draft “concerns not only defendants and convicts who are serving their term but also persons who have already served their time. Amnesty will also clear their criminal record.”