The Prosecutor’s Offices have classed as victims of political repression and rehabilitated over 61,000 persons starting with 1989. During the first half of this year, 76 rehabilitation certificates were issued to 97 persons based on their applications, IPN reports.

The Law on the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression provides that the applications for rehabilitation are submitted to the Prosecutor General’s Office by persons who were subject to repression based on decisions by judicial or extra-judicial bodies (VCK, GPU – OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB, prosecutor’s offices and their boards, “dvoiki”, “troiki”, “special meetings” and other bodies with similar functions) for ‘counterrevolutionary activity’ ‘treason’ , ‘spreading of calumnious inventions that discredited the Soviet state and public order’ and for other ‘state crimes’.

Applications can be also filed by persons convicted for the non-payment of taxes or non-fulfillment of the state bread collection plan, by persons admitted to psychiatric institutions or Soviet concentration or filtering camps based on decisions by judicial or extra-judicial bodies, convicted or executed for avoiding being enrolled in the red army for political or religious reasons.