BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

09/11/2009

Belarus releases over 2,000 convicts to mark WWII liberation

MINSK, November 9 (RIA Novosti) - More than 2,000 inmates in Belarus have walked free under an amnesty dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the country's liberation from the Nazis, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Monday.

"A total of 2,126 people have been released from correctional facilities," the official said. "More than 9,000 convicts had their sentences reduced by one year."

To be eligible for this year's amnesty a convict had to have reimbursed the damage caused by his crime.

The ministry spokesman said total damages paid under this year's amnesty exceeded 5.6 billion Belarusian rubles (about $2 million), compared with 1.5 bln rubles ($530,000) during last year's amnesty.

Source:

http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20091109/156770950.html


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