The Ruling Commission approved a ban on transferring some convicts closer to their families.

The transfer of those convicted of extremism, as well as foreign citizens and stateless persons to correctional institutions closer to where their relatives live, will be excluded. Such amendments were approved on June 2 by the government commission on legislative activity, sources in the Cabinet of Ministers told Izvestia. The document is available to the editorial staff.

Vladimir Gruzdev, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, clarified that now convicts can transfer to another correctional institution located in the subject of the Russian Federation, where their close relatives live. To do this, you need a written statement from the perpetrator himself or one of his relatives.

"The bill cancels this privilege for certain categories of prisoners — for example, the possibility of transfer to another institution for persons convicted of adhering to the ideology of extremism, as well as foreign citizens and stateless persons will be excluded," he said.

The draft law proposes to send those convicted of extremism, as well as foreign citizens and stateless persons, to correctional institutions designated by the federal agency of the penal system.

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Rights at home: those convicted of extremism will be banned from being transferred closer to their families