MOSCOW, October 30 (RAPSI) - Human rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva, 90, on Monday proposed to recreate the Presidential pardon board.

The initiative was announced during the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

Pardoning is a prerogative power of the head of the state, Alexeyeva stated.

According to the human rights campaigner, from 1996 to 2001, when the relevant commission existed, 36,901 convicts were pardoned. Later, from 2002 to 2016, only 890 inmates were pardoned, she said.

Alexeyeva believes that Russia’s Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova could form the board.