Amendments have been submitted for consideration by the lower house of the Russian parliament, introducing a life sentence for high treason, Vasily Piskarev, head of the State Duma Committee on Security, said on a telegram channel.
It is also proposed to "substantially increase the lower and upper limits of liability" for a number of crimes. In particular, under the article “Terrorist attack†to increase the maximum sentence from 15 to 20 years, under the article “Assistance to terrorist activitiesâ€, the minimum threshold for recruiting or engaging in terrorist crimes to be raised to seven years (now five years), and the minimum punishment for complicity - up to 12 years (now 10 years). Under the article "Organization of a terrorist community and participation in it" to establish a punishment of 10 to 15 years in prison (now from 5 to 10 years), under the article "Sabotage" - up to 20 years (now 15 years), and under the article "Act of International terrorism" - from 12 years (now from 10 years).
"We also propose to establish life imprisonment for high treason," wrote Piskarev
