俄羅斯國家杜馬通過大赦令 影響2萬多人

Russian MPs have backed an amnesty that may include some of the country's best-known prisoners including Pussy Riot and the Greenpeace Arctic State Duma in Moscow unanimously approved the law at its third reading and it is expected to come into force within days.

據英國廣播公司12月18日報道，俄羅斯國家杜馬三讀全體通過了一項大赦令，朋克樂隊“暴動小貓”（Pussy Riot）成員和綠色和平組織北極示威者等囚犯有望獲釋。

It covers at least 20,000 prisoners, including minors, invalids, veterans, pregnant women, and mothers.

法令有望在幾天內生效，將影響2萬多人，其中包括包括未成年人、殘疾人、退伍軍人、孕婦和母親。

Charges against 30 people arrested on a Greenpeace ship may be 30 mostly foreign nationals were recently released from custody but not allowed to leave Russia.

俄羅斯當局可能取消對30名綠色和平組織北極示威者的指控，這30人中大多數是外籍人士，最近已被釋放，但尚不許離開俄羅斯境內。

Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, were jailed in 2012 for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing an anti-Kremlin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the are due to be released three months from now in any case.

俄羅斯朋克樂隊“暴動小貓”的兩名成員瑪麗亞•阿列希娜和娜傑日達•託羅孔尼科娃預計3月後將獲釋。她們於2012年被監禁，罪名是冒犯宗教信徒和“流氓行爲”，起因是她們在莫斯科救世主大教堂演唱反克里姆林宮的歌曲。

Others who may be freed include some, but not all, of the political protesters arrested during clashes with police after Vladimir Putin's inauguration as Russian president for a third term last year.

此外，去年普京第三任期就職典禮時曾與警察發生衝突的部分示威者也將獲釋。

One prisoner who will not be affected by the amnesty is former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is due for release next August after serving a reduced sentence for is also unlikely that opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have his recent five-year suspended sentence for theft quashed.

不受大赦影響的囚犯包括因盜竊國有資產被判刑的俄羅斯前石油寡頭米哈伊爾•霍多爾科夫斯基，還有因涉嫌挪用公款和欺詐被判有期徒刑五年的反對派領袖人物阿列克謝•納爾瓦尼。

The amnesty marks the 20th anniversary of Russia's post-Soviet constitution. It will take effect once it is published but the releases are expected to take place over six months.

此次特赦是爲了紀念俄羅斯在後蘇聯時代的憲法20週年。特赦令一旦頒佈就立即生效，但釋放囚犯的過程預計會超過6個月。