(AGENPARL) – KREMLIN lun 22 maggio 2023

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Lebedev, we constantly discuss
this issue, it is always on our agenda: the humanisation of our legislation. I would like to ask you to begin with this.

Supreme Court President Vyacheslav
Lebedev: Mr
President, thank you for making this issue a priority. It really is a fundamental activity of the Supreme Court and the judicial system as well.

The implementation of this task and the efforts towards it are ongoing. In line with your latest instruction to develop
proposals for the humanisation of both legislation and law enforcement
practice, we have prepared a corresponding draft law aimed at humanising law
enforcement practice in relation to women and persons who have committed crimes
of minor or medium gravity for the first time. The ultimate goal of this draft
law is that a person, if they were charged with these offences for the first
time, would not be held criminally liable at all, so that there would first be
administrative or other disciplinary liability. And only when these offences
are repeated can criminal liability occur.

As for bringing criminal charges
against women, we are now proposing the following structure: for minor
offences, even in situations when a woman has no registration, she will still
not be held criminally
liable. There are
several options here. True, she has no registration, but she has a place of residence, her whereabouts are known. But even if it is unknown, the state can provide
an opportunity for warn her about the inadmissibility of repeating such actions
or actions of a different nature of minor or medium gravity, for which then it
would already be possible to prosecute her.

This scheme is being used for the first time, because usually the courts in law enforcement practice have acted in the following way: yes, a crime of minor or medium gravity was committed, but
there was no registration. Since there was no registration, there was a question about where to look for the woman and what she might do. There is
probably no need to assume: there is no registration, but there is a place of residence, everyone knows where she lives. If not, well, they will find it.

Vladimir Putin: A technical issue.

Vyacheslav Lebedev: Yes. Now there are numerous,
significant possibilities of searching, establishing the place of abode of such
persons, so this is not a problem. I think the state can do it.

Vladimir Putin: Of course, I agree. It is
necessary, as we usually do in such cases, to work on this thoroughly with the expert community, to work on this with the deputies and the Civic Chamber; and I will issue a corresponding instruction to the Executive Office.

To be continued.

Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71173