Belarus’s lower house approved an amnesty bill that would cut a year from eligible first-time drug sentences. The proposal accompanied the eightieth anniversary of victory in the Second World War and still needed to complete the legislative process. The final law took effect on 8 May, widening eligibility while retaining exclusions and individual conditions.[1][2][3][4]
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References
- Law.by — House of Representatives passes amnesty bill, 30 April 2025Existing source retained for lower-house stage; final act independently confirms adoption date; draft effects kept conditional
- Belarus amnesty law of 6 May 2025 — public text and commencement metadata, SPInformLaw 70-Z; lower house 30 April, upper house 2 May; published and effective 8 May 2025; public articles 1–3, later provisions checked in lawyers’ explanationsarchived
- LawPike — Amnesty 2025: changes and exclusionsArticle 13 reproduced: first-conviction exception for parts 1–4 of article 328; separate minor/parent exceptions; first-conviction exception absent from part 5; individual conditionsarchived
- Minsk lawyer Kristina Asryan — Amnesty law 2025Effective 8 May, offences before that date, six-month implementation; article 9 one-year partial release; exclusions and individual decisionsarchived
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