MINSK. Nov 7 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to pardon 31 people convicted for extremist crimes, the presidential press service said on Thursday.
"Two women and 29 men have been pardoned, 17 have chronic diseases, three have disabilities, 27 convicts have children, seven of them have many children," the press service said in a statement.
The convicts have been exempted of the main punishment without expungement of their convictions, the statement said. The Interior Ministry will supervise their conduct, it said.
The Belarusian president pardoned 30 people convicted for extremist crimes in August 2024 and 67 people convicted for extremist crimes in September 2024.
Lukashenko said in late October a commission led by the prosecutor general would work on issues relating to pardoning people convicted for extremist crimes. He also said he is ready to consider Maria Kolesnikova's pardon request. Kolesnikova headed Viktor Babariko's headquarters during the presidential election campaign in Belarus in 2020. She became a representative of the joint headquarters of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya after Babariko's arrest.
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