20 July 2010, 17:00

Medvedev offers tougher sanctions for terrorism

After the recent resonant terror acts committed in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev has brought in a bill to the State Duma on amending the Russia's Criminal Code.

The bill assumes longer actual serving on one's term prior to get the right for conditional early relief if sentenced for terror, helping terror and public appeals to terror or justifying terror. It is also proposed to increase the terms for these crimes, Kremlin reports.

Currently, the article on "terror act" envisions imprisonment for 8-20 years, or lifelong imprisonment. Sanctions under the article "assistance to terror" assume up to 15 years of imprisonment.

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