The Amnesty Bill will be submitted to the Bureau on July 15, and the Parliament will begin to discuss it this week in the committees.

The bill will be approved with the first reading at the extraordinary session thgis week and finally be adopted at the fall session.

“This is a balanced amnesty bill, which will be the first step toward the statement that the Prime Minister has made during his annual report, and this is the wish of our political team to reduce the number of inmates in prisons. We aim to reduce the number of prisoners by 1/3. This amnesty envisages the immediate release of 10% of prisoners and others in certain forms, such as reducing prison terms by 1/2, 1/4, or 1/6. The amnesty will comprise approximately 300 articles”, - explained the Speaker of the Parliament.

The Georgian Dream introduced the Amnesty Bill on July 11.