Front for Change Party leader and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense MP Arseniy Yatseniuk has tabled in the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on amnesty in 2012, the party's press service has reported.
"The law will help correct the distortion of the current penal and judicial system with respect to people who are serving their sentences for minor crimes and put an end to the issue of political persecution of [former Prime Minister] Yulia Tymoshenko and [former Interior Minister] Yuriy Lutsenko," the party’s press service quoted him as saying.
"There is no fair justice in a country in which there are only two acquittals out of a thousand verdicts. This law is intended to correct miscarriages of justice," Yatseniuk said.
"I want the law on amnesty in 2012 to become a law on justice. People should be able to start a new life, not to destroy their future in overcrowded pre-trial detention centers and old prisons. They have a right to see their families, return to a normal social life, and society should return to them," he added.
"This law will put an end to political persecution. It will restore justice with respect to Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko," Yatseniuk said.
