Therefore, they have nowhere to hurry
Thousands of people, convicted or just arrested, are being tortured. This has been happening for many years, but the authorities did nothing, because it was believed that these were “isolated cases”. Indeed, it was very difficult to prove such a “case”.
She was adopted in the USA. Now she is a world champion.
But not so long ago there was a leak – thousands of hours of video, where horrific tortures are visible with all the details. As a result, at the meeting of the President with the Human Rights Council, this topic was heard all over the world.
These words were uttered by the President on December 9, and an official reaction followed on December 20.
The co-author of the document, the head of the Duma committee on state construction and legislation Krasheninnikov explained: “We agreed to send it out for three weeks. On January 10, the deadline will end, we will hold a committee after that, consider the feedback.”
The second co-author of the bill on strengthening responsibility for torture – the infamous Senator Klishas explained: “I believe that the amendments can be adopted already in the spring session.”
What is the “spring session”? Is it March? or April? or May? The spring session has a pre-established legal deadline. In 2022, this is from January 10 to July 31. If we count from the New Year, then 7 months, and if we count from the presidential decree, then all eight. That is 240 days.
For an important law, it’s pretty fast. Especially if you don’t think that all this time the torture continues. And they continue; maybe less massively, but for a person who is being tortured, this is little consolation.
There are, however, examples when a bill turned into a law somewhat faster. This happened with the law on the extension of presidential and deputy powers, which was proposed by President Medvedev on November 11, 2008.
By this time, Medvedev had been president of Russia for only six months, that is, he had nowhere to hurry. However, the process went like an express. Submitted to the Duma on November 11. The first reading is on November 14. The second is on November 19. The third is November 21. Federation Council — November 26. And then signed by the president.
Let’s pay attention to the details. The co-author of the law on torture Klishas on December 20 reports that the draft is sent to the mailing list until January 10, after which reviews will be “considered.” That is, the deputies will have three weeks to delve into the document. The extension of the deadlines was thought out faster: three days passed from the introduction to the first reading. That’s how quickly the deputies of that time got acquainted, got into it and responded.
From the introduction of the law on extension to the approval in the Federation Council, it took only 15 days. Although, as already mentioned, there was absolutely nowhere to hurry. However, it seems as if an air-raid siren howled, and the deputies, having abandoned everything, rushed to the bomb shelter. Oh, no, they’re heroes – so they rushed to the roofs to extinguish lighters.
A unique episode in legislative activity? No. Here is another example: the law of “Dima Yakovlev” (which is more correctly called the “law of cannibals”— is a law prohibiting the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens (all orphans, even terminally ill and crippled – without arms, without legs, etc.).
The draft law was introduced on December 10, 2012. The first reading was on December 14 (that is, it took 4 days to get acquainted). The second reading is on December 19. The third reading is on December 21. On the 26th – the Federation Council, signed by the President on December 28. Everything in 18 days.
I must say that even here the deputies had absolutely nowhere to hurry — after all, they did not adopt the law on immediate assistance to the seriously ill and dying. On the contrary, they left sick and dying orphans in a helpless position. Even those for whom foster parents have already been found and all the documents have been issued. But the door slammed shut.
If we were making a movie about this law, then every time the vote and signing would be accompanied by the clang of an iron prison door.