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Czech launches Internet petition against president's amnesty
PRAGUE, Jan 05, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
An Internet petition has been
initiated in the Czech Republic in protest to the amnesty declared
recently by President Vaclav Klaus, the petitioners said Saturday.
More than 60,000 people have signed the Internet petition and
another 200,000 have expressed interest in the protest on Facebook
social network so far, the petitioners said.
Klaus announced the partial amnesty in his New Year's speech on
the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic's
independence.
It applies to convicts with low suspended or prison sentences,
elderly convicts and also suspects whose criminal proceedings have
lasted for more than eight years.
People mostly criticised that the amnesty would halt
proceedings of some serious economic crime cases.
"We consider a similar act mockery of the honest and uneasy
work of Czech policemen, state attorneys and judges," the petition
said.
The petitioners pointed out that the amnesty is neither the
right way of celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Czech
Republic's establishment nor a good signal sent to "decent
citizens".
In the amnesty, Klaus primarily took the sentence length into
consideration as well as other additional attributes, such as the
type of prisoner and crime.
"In no case, it concerned and could concern individuals. I
think it would be a fatal mistake if I knew concrete cases and
decided accordingly. I did not have a single particular case in
mind," said Klaus.
The amnesty will apply to some 32,000 people, according to the
Justice Ministry's estimation.
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