The prosecutor's offices in Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Volyn regions have started fulfilling the requirements of the law on the exemption from criminal liability of participants in mass rallies, reads a statement posted on the Web site of the Prosecutor General's Office on Monday.
In particular, the Volyn Regional Prosecutor’s Office closed the
criminal proceedings on the blocking of a military unit of the Interior
Troops in Lutsk.
The Zaporizhia Regional Prosecutor’s Office closed the criminal
proceedings on the blocking of Lenin Avenue. A group of procedural
prosecutors is also preparing a petition for the release of 49 people
suspected of trying to seize the building of Zaporizhia Regional State
Administration and organize riots.
The Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, in turn, closed the
criminal proceedings on public calls for the seizure of the building of
Mykolaiv Regional State Administration.
As reported, the law amnestying all Ukrainian protesters took effect on Feb. 17.
“The aforementioned law will take effect on Feb. 17, 2014, and
exempt from criminal liabilities and punishment persons who committed
crimes listed in Article 1 of this law in the period from Dec. 27,
2013, through Feb. 2, 2014, close their criminal cases, and relieve
from administrative liabilities the persons put under administrative
arrest,” the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
The law was conditioned on the vacation of the seized administrative
buildings, among them the premises of regional state administrations,
local government bodies and the Kyiv City Administration, and the
unblocking of Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv.
The press service said the conditions were met by the evening of Feb. 16.
