Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has pardoned jailed ex-Interior
Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, according to the decree posted on the
president’s website on Sunday.
Ukrainian human rights envoy Valeria Lutkovskaya earlier appealed to Yanukovych with a request to pardon Lutsenko due to his deteriorating health condition in prison. Lutsenko was scheduled to leave prison in late 2014.
Following the prudential decree, Lutsenko has been released from jail, the Ukrainian penal service said.
“Today [Sunday] the [presidential] decree [on pardoning several convicts was executed in full and all the convicts were freed from prison,” the penal service’s press office reported.
Among those pardoned is former Environmental Minister Georgy Filipchuk.
The pardoning of Lutsenko is an act of mercy towards an illegitimately convicted person, the ex-interior minister’s lawyer Alexei Baganets said.
“I qualify the presidential decree as an act of mercy toward the person who was illegitimately arrested, wrongfully convicted and who contracted a whole bunch of grave diseases in prison,” Baganets told RIA
Ukrainian human rights envoy Valeria Lutkovskaya earlier appealed to Yanukovych with a request to pardon Lutsenko due to his deteriorating health condition in prison. Lutsenko was scheduled to leave prison in late 2014.
Following the prudential decree, Lutsenko has been released from jail, the Ukrainian penal service said.
“Today [Sunday] the [presidential] decree [on pardoning several convicts was executed in full and all the convicts were freed from prison,” the penal service’s press office reported.
Among those pardoned is former Environmental Minister Georgy Filipchuk.
The pardoning of Lutsenko is an act of mercy towards an illegitimately convicted person, the ex-interior minister’s lawyer Alexei Baganets said.
“I qualify the presidential decree as an act of mercy toward the person who was illegitimately arrested, wrongfully convicted and who contracted a whole bunch of grave diseases in prison,” Baganets told RIA
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