PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN PROPOSED GENERAL AMNESTY
Lragir.am
06 July 06
On June 30 President Kocharyan offered the National Assembly a proposal
on granting general amnesty on the occasion of the 15th anniversary
of independence of Armenia. The proposal will be discussed in the
July 6 extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly.
The minister of justice Davit Harutiunyan says if the proposal of
Robert Kocharyan is enacted, 300 convicts will be released. According
to the chair of the State and Legal Committee Rafik Petrosyan, 700
inmates will be released.
Robert Kocharyan proposes amnesty for people who committed a crime
before June 1, 2006 including, and amnesty on the basis of disability
and age is for people, who were recognized disabled before the day
before the adoption of the decision on amnesty, or who became 60
years old before September 30, 2006.
In accordance with this bill, amnesty will be granted to persons
sentenced to three years of imprisonment, and persons put on
probation. Amnestry will be granted to convicts sentenced to five
years of imprisonment, who have disabilities of the 2nd or 3rd
categories and aged 60 and more, convicts who were under 18 at the
moment of committing the crime and do not have previous convictions,
as well as participants of the war. Amnesty will be granted to the
convicts sentenced to ten years of imprisonment, who have served 1/3
of the sentence. Generally, the list of prisoners, whom amnesty will
be granted, is rather long.