Putin spared the information from Gypsy Valeria Cheklina, a blogger known under the pseudonym Larchek.
The propagandist Simonyan stood by her and cited the fact that Chekalina was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer. The blogger's lawyers requested permission to travel abroad for treatment.
Peskov said that Putin was guided solely by "considerations of humanism."
Meanwhile, hundreds of innocent people sit in Russian prisons, convicted of political crimes or simply framed by the FSB.
Among them are children, women, the elderly and the sick. The dictator's "humanism" does not apply to them.