Putin signs bill granting lifetime immunity to former Russian presidents

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Putin signs bill granting lifetime immunity to former Russian presidents

Agence France-Presse in Moscow
Tue 22 Dec 2020 17.14 GMT

Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that will grant former presidents of Russia lifetime immunity once they leave office.

The bill, which was published online on Tuesday, gives former presidents and their families immunity from prosecution for crimes committed during their lifetime.

They will also be exempt from questioning by police or investigators, as well as searches or arrests.

The legislation was part of constitutional amendments approved this summer in a nationwide vote that allow Putin, 68, to remain president until 2036.

Before the bill became law, former presidents were immune to prosecution only for crimes committed while in office.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/putin-signs-bill-granting-lifetime-immunity-to-former-russian-presidents

[Irish_Dem]

1. Presidents and families have lifetime immunity from any crime committed?

Good God.

The Trumps would love this.

[DFW]

2. Not even Czar Nikolai II got away with that

Not that Lenin would have respected any such law in the first place.

[empedocles]

3. traitortrump has to be 'pea green with envy'

Beside himself even