Parliament adopts law on amnesty in 2016

The adopted law provides an amnesty and encompasses primarily those categories of convicts who are most vulnerable and socially unprotected. In particular, it is planned to grant an amnesty to minors and women along with men who have children under 16 or disabled children or disabled children of the first, second and third degrees, those suffering from TB and cancer; persons who have reached retirement age. The law also stipulates an amnesty for servicemen who defended Ukrainian independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity by taking part in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas.