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President Toomas Hendrik Ilves issued two presidential pardons yesterday, both for females imprisoned for murder, ERR News reported.
President Pardons Two Murder Convicts
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The same day he rejected requests concerning 18 other cases, Ilves pardoned Liliya Artamonova, a 39-year-old Russian citizen convicted of the premeditated murder of her husband. After her release, Artamonova will be deported from Estonia and banned from entering the country for ten years.
The second woman pardoned was Merli K., aged 28, imprisoned in 2008 for killing her partner's sister. She has been raising her child, soon to turn four, in the prison and had she not been pardoned, the social services or relatives would have had to take the child into their care.