Maidan activists are indignant: Berkut members may be eligible for amnesty for ATO looters
The controversial law on amnesty for ATO participants adopted by the Verkhovna Rada may lead to the fact that Interior Ministry employees who ensure law and order in the center of the Ukrainian capital during the confrontation with rioters during the Maidan may be exempt from punishment.
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This warning was made by Alexandra Matveychuk, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Civil Liberties, coordinator of the Euromaidan SOS public initiative, during a press conference in Kyiv.
“This is an ordinary amnesty law, which is adopted every year, but this time provisions were introduced into it that, according to the good intentions of the deputies, should have exempted ATO participants from prosecution for the forced actions that they committed in the realities of wartime.
One of the consequences of this law is that it allows amnesty even for those representatives of law enforcement agencies who committed crimes on the Maidan, for the reason that they received the status of ATO participants,” Matveychuk laments. – The bill itself does not contain a provision that the time of commission of crimes should be at least in some way connected with the ATO. Thus, with this bill, supposedly out of good intentions, in addition to a number of other negative consequences, we are simply amnestying law enforcement officers who committed crimes on the Maidan.”
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