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Representatives of the opposition parliamentary factions at the working group for drawing up a bill on the treatment of convicts abroad have registered in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, another bill amending some laws of Ukraine on humanization of the execution of some punishments. 

According to a posting on the parliament’s Web site, bill No. 3599 was registered on Tuesday. MPs Andriy Kozhemiakin, Hennadiy Moskal, Iryna Lutsenko (all from the Batkivschyna faction), Iryna Heraschenko (UDAR faction), and Andriy Mischenko (Svoboda faction) are the authors of the document.

The text of the bill has not been posted on the parliament’s Web site.