The state Duma in the third final reading passed a bill to toughen the punishment for abetment of suicide. This was reported on the website of the Parliament on Friday, July 21.
It is clarified that for encouraging the suicide of people will go to prison for 5-10 years (currently a maximum of 5 years). If killing a minor, a pregnant woman or a man, “the helpless, or financially or otherwise dependent on the perpetrator”, the period is extended to 12 years (now — up to 6 years), and if two or more people — up to 15 years.
With regard to the organization of criminal activities through the dissemination of information about methods of suicide, for they are threatened by imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years. For calls in the Internet or media from 5 to 15 years.
As noted by one of the authors of the bill Vasily Piskarev (“United Russia”), all the factions voted for this unanimously. “This unity emphasizes the necessity of the measures taken are mainly aimed at protecting the life and health of citizens, including children, from the practice of criminal inducement to suicide”, — he explained.
The MP expressed hope that the new law will reduce the number of “groups of death” in social networks, and later does to get rid of them. He stressed that the punishment should not only for the immediate encouragement of suicide, but the organization of such activities. “Should be set to the same responsibility as for murder,” said Piskarev.
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