Respecting the principle of humanity

Deputies of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Galina Antyufeeva and Grigory Dyachenko proposed to regulate the mechanism for releasing persons from serving sentences due to illness. The deputies of the Supreme Council supported the amendments to the Criminal Procedure and Penitentiary Codes of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic at the plenary session in the second final reading.

It was prescribed at the legislative level that a petition for release due to illness is sent for consideration to the city (district) court at the place of serving the sentence. The court must decide whether to release the convicted person from further serving the sentence or refuse to satisfy the petition not later than 10 days after admission.

The deputies supported the proposal of fellow deputies that the court ruling on the release of the convict from further serving the sentence should be executed immediately, even if it has not yet entered into force. According to the authors, this will allow faster treatment of patients with severe diseases in a hospital setting.

The convict and his lawyer will be able to appeal against this ruling in a higher court in cassation if the court refuses to satisfy the petition. The prosecutor will be able to submit a submission to the court ruling.

The term for filing a petition for release from serving a sentence to the court will be reduced. The convict submits according to the norms in force today such a petition through the administration of the colony, which within 10 days submits it to the court along with the conclusion of the medical or medical-labor commission and the personal file of the convict. This period will be reduced to 3 days now.

The position of the authors of the legislative initiative was supported by the Prosecutor of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Anatoly Guretsky.

The new norms of the Criminal Procedure and Penitentiary Codes of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic will come into effect immediately after they are signed by the President.