AMNESTY IN MONGOLIA
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 6. The Mongolian Peoples’ Republic has proclaimed an amnesty for all crimes except those endangering State security, the official Soviet News Agency, Tass, said today.
The death penalty had been abolished, except for traitors, spies, saboteurs and diversionists.
Several communist countries in Europe have decreed amnesties since Stalin died.
Russia led with the Malenkov amnesty on March 28, Rumania followed a week later, and Czechoslovakia also announced an amnesty on May 4. The Mongolian amnesty does not cover counter-revolutionary activities, large thefts of State property, premediated murder, banditry, rape, fostering religious superstition and “the malicious non-fulfilment of obligations towards the State.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 9
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