Russian MP arrested on senate floor over double murder

[smurfy]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/30/politician-rauf-arashukov-detained-at-russian-parliament-over-murders

When Arashukov arrived for a regular session of parliament, the house speaker abruptly announced the session closed to the press. Then a vote was announced to relieve Arashukov of his parliamentary immunity to allow him to be charged for murder.
Arashukov attempted to flee through the parliament gallery, but then surrendered to law enforcement, who came to the building to arrest him. He pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges later on Wednesday.

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He's part of United Russia which is the ruling party. Probably not a frame up.

[Zonesylvania]

At least they arrested him before this happened
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[kylel999]

What the fuck? They have to vote him out of parliament to make him not immune to murder charges?

[ASparkle]

Not legally, it's just everyone tiptoes around him.

[ペゴボド]

it's more that it's unclear if you can criminally charge them, so nobody has ever tried on a proper level

[xxfalconxx]

thats some genuine grade A bullshit there. Nobody should be above the law. If the session was out for like, holidays or something, does that mean he could literally just walk into a station and shoot the place up and technically be immune to said charges until the parliament votes him out? That’s insane.

[Joseph Smith]

If i recall right, most of the countries Europe have parliamentary immunity, and the immunity needs to be lifted. The US, UK and Canada don't really have this.

[kylel999]

It is insane. I can imagine if it were a very long-standing, old government and this came from a time when people could generally be trusted more to be ethically sane... But it's not. It's either blatantly designed to allow corruption, or whoever wrote and agreed to it was out of their mind