An additional benefit of amnesty bins is it allows for analysis of the drugs to identify those currently in circulation.
He later benefited from amnesty and became naturalized in 1942.
Many police officials who engaged in torture under the dictatorship benefited from amnesties under democratic rule and remained in their jobs.
He said it was good that Greenpeace would benefit from the amnesty "but we didn't do it for them".
Some opposition members would also benefit from the amnesty, although election observers have attributed most of the pre-election violence to government supporters.
Over the next two months prisoners convicted of nonpolitical criminal offenses could also benefit from the amnesty law, which could free about 3,000 inmates and reduce the sentences of 14,000 more.
Rapists, corrupt government officials, drug traffickers and people convicted of certain crimes against the state, including Kurdish guerrillas and leftist and Islamic militants, also would not benefit from the amnesty.
The Amnesty benefit was not the full stage show - for that you'll have to catch the current tour - more of a romp through the songs with guest narration by Tony Slattery, Robin Cousins, Steve Pemberton, Jamie Theakston and Christopher Biggins.
The deputy speaker of the Duma, Vladimir Vasilyev, said about 25,000 people would benefit from the amnesty, most of whom were not given prison terms.
ALSO: Britain to start issuing plastic money in 2016 Homeless men invited to help Pope Francis celebrate birthday Pussy Riot, Greenpeace could benefit from Russian amnesty law Twitter: @MarkMagnier [email protected] Tanvi Sharma in The Times' New Delhi bureau contributed to this report.
