BAKU, Azerbaijan, Might 8. As many as
69 pardoning orders and 12 acts of amnesty have been signed, the
Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman) of Azerbaijan Sabina Aliyeva
mentioned, Pattern
experiences.
“The pardon order signed by President Ilham Aliyev on
the event of the one centesimal anniversary of the nice chief of
Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev is the widest in its scope. I specific my
gratitude in reference to this order as an Ombudsman,” she
mentioned.
Sabina Aliyeva famous that 864 folks have been
pardoned up to now on the request of the Ombudsman.
“On the present disposal, 59 convicts have been
launched on the request of the Ombudsman,” she mentioned.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has signed a
decree on pardoning plenty of convicts on the event of the
one centesimal anniversary of the nationwide chief of the Azerbaijani folks
Heydar Aliyev. The pardon order is scheduled to be executed by Might
10.
In line with the Decree, as many as 801 convicts had been
pardoned, of which 463 folks had been launched from imprisonment, 220
folks from half of the unserved a part of the punishment within the kind
of imprisonment, 118 folks from different punishments not associated to
imprisonment (restriction of liberty, correctional labor,
punishment within the type of a high quality and individuals sentenced to suspended
sentence).
A complete of 14 of the pardoned convicts are foreigners,
12 of them are being absolutely launched from punishment, and two are
from half of the sentence. 4 convicted foreigners are topic to
compelled expulsion from the nation after being launched from
punishment by the related sentence. Since different residents of
overseas international locations are Azerbaijanis by ethnicity or their household
members are residents of Azerbaijan, compelled expulsion won’t be
utilized to them.
As many as 10 convicts had been launched from punishment
on the premise of appeals from human rights organizations. Amongst them
are journalist Elchin Mamed, Chairman of the Residents and
Improvement Occasion Ali Aliyev, in addition to 5 individuals who had been
convicted in reference to the terrorist occasions, and three folks in
reference to the occasions in Ganja in 2018. It was determined to
pardon these individuals, considering their conduct through the
time period of serving their sentence, marital standing, and well being
situation.
A complete of 14 conferences of the Pardon Fee beneath
the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan have been held, at
which about 2,400 paperwork had been mentioned, since January of this
yr.
This decree is the most important act of pardon adopted in
the historical past of the unbiased Republic of Azerbaijan by way of
the variety of individuals to whom it applies as compared with the
pardon order of Might 24, 2018, adopted on the event of the one centesimal
anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, utilized to 634
convicts.
The pardon order is scheduled to be executed by Might
10.