DUSHANBE, October 28, 2009, Asia-Plus — A draft law “On the Amnesty” is one of major topics of today’s sitting of the sixth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) of the third convocation.
According to Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, the new amnesty will be announced in the country on occasion of the 15th anniversary of Tajikistan’s Constitution, which is marked on November 6, and Year of Imam Azam in Tajikistan. In all, more than 10,000 people are expected to be granted amnesty, according to him.
We will recall that the last amnesty, which marked the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Tajikistan, was announced in Tajikistan in June 2007. It applied on veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and female convicts, elderly, minors and sick prisoners who are serving sentences for minor crimes. The amnesty excluded those serving sentences for serious crimes such as terrorism and extremism, killing two and more people, recidivists or those who committed crimes in prison. 6,731 people were released under the amnesty announced in June 2007.
