The bill on tougher punishment for torture was sent to the mailing list by January 10. This was announced on Monday, December 20, by the press service of Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation.
“We agreed to send it out for three weeks. On January 10, the deadline will end, we will hold a committee after that, consider the reviews. And at one of the first meetings [весенней сессии Госдумы] we will put the first reading [законопроекта]”, – quotes the words of the TASS press service.
The introduction to the State Duma of a bill to toughen the punishment for torture became known earlier that day. It was clarified that the document introduces the concept of “intimidation”, and also proposes to increase the term of imprisonment for torture to 12 years. Coercion to testify will also amount to torture.
One of the authors of the bill, the chairman of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation, Andrei Klishas, said that the document provides a new definition of the concept of torture, which will help to avoid difficulties in qualifying such a crime and imposing punishment for it.
Klishas added that the transfer of torture to the category of especially grave criminal acts will increase the statute of limitations for such crimes, which, in turn, will make it possible to more effectively implement the principle of inevitability of punishment.
He noted that the bill will be considered and adopted by parliament until mid-2022.
In turn, Tatyana Protsenko, a member of the Council of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers (FPA) of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia that this draft law on toughening the punishment for torture is relevant and modern, since it qualifies many illegal actions as torture.
On December 16, the chairman of the Human Rights Council under the President, Valery Fadeev, said that he had several proposals on measures to combat the violation of prisoners’ rights. In his opinion, it is necessary to include the article “Torture” in the Criminal Code and to strengthen public monitoring commissions (POC).
The development of the bill was preceded by the publication of archives with torture in Russian colonies and prisons. On November 19, the commission of the central office of the Federal Penitentiary Service announced the commenced inspection in the institutions of the department in the Saratov region. On November 10, 18 employees of the department’s department for the region were dismissed.
Source: IZ
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