The legislative act exempts from criminal liability, in a manner and in terms determined by this law, persons who are suspects or accused (defendants) in committing crimes, for the period of December 27, 2013 and till the day of this law coming into force, stipulated by articles 109, 1101, 161, 194, 259, 279, 293, 294, 295, 296, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 350, 351, 352, 376, 377, 382, 386 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on condition that these crimes are connected with mass protest actions started on November 21, 2013. Respective criminal proceedings shall be closed.
The Law exempts from imprisonment for a certain period of time and from other punishments not connected with imprisonment, in a manner and in terms stipulated by this Law, persons convicted of committing the abovementioned crimes. Criminal proceedings initiated in connection with these crimes and according to which no one is notified of a suspicion shall be closed.
The legislative act also exempts from serving an administrative sentence persons who were subject to such type of administrative penalty for committing administrative crimes connected with mass protest actions.
The Law stipulates a special procedure of its norms coming into force. Particularly, it comes into force on the next day after its publication, however, it becomes valid on the next day after publication on the official web-site of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine a message about participants of mass protests committing such actions:
vacation of all occupied buildings or premises of state authorities or local self-government authorities in Kyiv and other residential areas of Ukraine during the protests, as well as admission of people working there to their working places, and eliminating other obstacles for a proper functioning of the abovementioned objects;
unblocking transport communications on Hrushevskoho street in Kyiv by participants of mass protests;
unblocking other streets, squares, alleys, boulevards, etc. in Kyiv or other residential areas of Ukraine, apart from those where peaceful assemblies are conducted.
According to the Law, the respective message may be made by a Prosecutor General’s Office only if participants of mass protests commit such actions in a 15-day period starting on the next day of this law coming into force.
Respective bill was registered under No. 4023-1.