Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law introducing amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding the improvement of the procedure for rehabilitation of victims of repression of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991.
According to the website of the head of state, the law largely compensates for legal gaps in the legislation and will improve the situation with the implementation of the legal rights of former political prisoners and repressed persons.
Thus, the terminology of the law on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in Ukraine has been updated, and the category of victims of repression – relatives of persons repressed by the communist regime – has been introduced.
In addition, the document standardizes an updated rehabilitation procedure, which will take into account all the circumstances of the repression of a particular person. At the same time, the consideration of documents implies not only the participation of representatives of government bodies, but also associations of citizens engaged in relevant topics.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the bill on March 13.
The law amends the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses, the Code of Administrative Proceedings, the laws on the prosecutor’s office, on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in Ukraine, on pensions for persons retired from military service and some other persons, as well as the law on the condemnation of the communist and national-socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols.
