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Prosecutor General's Office is studying the possibility of easing the preventive punishment on Euromaidan protesters arrested earlier. 

Top priority investigative actions in criminal proceedings regarding violations of public order and provocations during peaceful actions in Kyiv have been finished, witnesses have been interrogated and video and photo materials have been studied.

“Now the Kyiv prosecutor’s office is searching for the opportunity to choose less hard measures of restraint for the arrested persons,” said the PGO press service.

According to it, prosecutors “agreeing with the position of investigators and taking into consideration the family obligations of suspects [small children etc.] would put to the court the question of changing some measures of restraint from arrest to something else.”

However, the PGO stressed that possible change of the measure of restraint doesn’t free suspect from the criminal responsibility.

“If the suspect doesn’t fulfill the duties foreseen by this or that measure of restraint, they could be placed [back] in custody,” the press service said.

Earlier President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych asked Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka to immediately release all people detained at rallies in Kyiv whose degree of guilt is not serious.

The courts arrested nine Euromaidan protesters.