Merkacheva on the pardon of Lerchek: " One of the first "

In fact, although the pardon implies that an individual decision is made in respect of each convict, recently Vladimir Putin has increasingly pardoned groups of people. If we were talking about women, they were groups of 20-50 people, not one. The wording that contained an indication of pardon on sickness never existed, and the laws do not provide for this. But in general, everyone who was pardoned, and those who watched his story, knew why the person was the president's decree, was exempt from criminal liability. And most often these were situations related to the fact that a person has many children, or just minor children, with the fact that he somehow manifested himself in prison. Illness is certainly one of the factors that is always taken into account, however, this is an optional story. And if we are talking about seriously ill convicts, who would be released by presidential decree, probably Lercek will be one of the first. Her story stands out from all the others. First, the public learned that she had a severe cancer diagnosis at the stage of her criminal prosecution. Second, the public watched as she was brutalized, if not brutalized, while being accused of economic crime. In addition, information was thrown into the public space that she was not really sick. This is not true at all stages. And there is no doubt that she has a serious illness, the doctors who examined her never had.