Convicted and convicted in the SIZO are allowed to see their children more often
The Duma Commission on Family, Children and Women Affairs discussed a bill that implies the right to extra dates with your children.
This initiative was proposed by deputies headed by Olga Batalina.
The prisoner is supposed to receive two dates a month if he has child under 14 or disabled child.
Today, existing laws allow such meetings only if they are given consent and permission. investigator leading the case.
It’s not a secret, and numerous inmates ’complaints to the ombudsman are proof that investigators are often manipulated by suspects and persons under investigationusing the fact of having children and being able to see them as a weighty argument for pressure.
A suspect may be in the SIZO for several months and several years - it all depends on how quickly the investigation is progressing.
All this time a person depends on the will of the investigator - whether or not he will allow the meeting with children. Long separation from parents injures the psyche of young children, consider the authors of the bill.
If the document with amendments is adopted, the investigators will lose the right to authorize meetings with relatives, in order to communicate with children, the prisoner in the SIZO will need only written consent prosecutor.
It is assumed that this will greatly simplify the task for all interested parties and, in the first place, for young children who have communication with their mother or father who is imprisoned during the investigation, vital.
