The First Reading Amnesty 2025

On behalf of the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky, an amnesty will be applied to certain categories of convicts in 2025. The draft Resolutions of the Supreme Council on amnesty were developed by the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens. Such an act of humanism will be demonstrated in connection with two anniversaries: Pridnestrovie celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory of 1941-1945 and the 35th anniversary of the formation of the republic this year. The year 2025 has also been declared the Year of the Pridnestrovian People by the President, noted Vice Speaker of the Parliament, Chairperson of the relevant committee Galina Antyufeeva, presenting the draft at the plenary session. The amnesty will not apply to persons who have committed serious and especially serious crimes, as well as to especially dangerous recidivism, noted Galina Antyufeeva. Those who have committed intentional crimes in places of imprisonment or maliciously violate the regime of serving a sentence will not be released early either. The amnesty will also not apply to accused, defendants and convicts who have compensated the victims less than half of the total amount of damage, according to the draft resolution.

The relevant committee has already received 3 positive opinions on the draft Resolution on amnesty: the Commissioner for Human Rights in the PMR and the Federation of Trade Unions from the Supreme Court.

Deputies of the Supreme Council unanimously adopted the draft Resolution "On amnesty in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the formation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" in the first reading at the plenary session on April 9. The second draft Resolution on the procedure for applying the amnesty was supported in the first reading.

The Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens will continue to work on the draft Resolutions on amnesty adopted in the first reading. All comments from subjects of the right of legislative initiative will be drawn up in the form of amendments to the second reading. They will be considered by the Supreme Council in the course of the plenary session then.

It is assumed that the amnesty will be applied this year to those convicted for the first time or sentenced to imprisonment for crimes committed through negligence. The act of humanism can be applied to participants in military operations to defend the PMR, and to those whose parents died in 1992. The amnesty can affect disabled people of groups I and II, those with tuberculosis, AIDS or cancer, as well as pregnant women, women with minor children or disabled children of groups I and II, and other categories of convicts.