Azerbaijani Parliament today adopted the Act amnesty timed to the Day of the Republic on 28 May.
The amnesty will cover 10 thousand convicts, of whom 3,500 will be released from prison. The document was submitted to Parliament on behalf of Mehriban Aliyeva.
It should be noted that the amnesty will cover those convicted of crimes that do not pose great danger to society. Also under the amnesty covered those serving sentences in open prisons.
Amnesty also serving a disciplinary punishment in the military units, which remained until the end of at least 1 year.
Under the amnesty fall and sentenced to correctional and public works, to limit to occupy certain positions, sentenced to fines less than 2 thousand. Manats or the unpaid portion of a fine of not more than the specified amount.
The amnesty covered a woman convicted of less serious crimes, the age of 18 at the time of committing the crime, men who have reached 60 years of age, people with disabilities I, II and III groups, men who have the care of a minor child or having a child I or II disability groups.
The amnesty also applies to participants in the Second World War and home front workers who performed their international duty in the Armed Forces of the former Soviet Union, have been subjected to repression in the Soviet period, the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident.
Amnesty affects persons deported from the Armenian SSR in 1948-1953 and 1988, forcibly evicted during the Armenian occupation in 1988-1993, the participants of the Karabakh war and the close relatives of those killed in the course of these battles.
In addition, amnestied injured during the tragedy on 20 January 1990, or their close relatives, as well as persons who became disabled during Khojali genocide or their close relatives.
Grant amnesty to persons who have not deserved part of punishment for which does not exceed 6 months.
However, in the act, there are restrictions: the amnesty does not apply to convicted
for less serious crimes (except for women), serious and very serious crimes.
Amnesty Act will enter into force on 15 June and will be implemented within 4 years.
According to estimates of human rights activists, Amnesty hardly affect political prisoners.
This is the fourth amnesty decision in 2007 on the initiative of Mehriban Aliyeva.
Previous was in 2013 and reached more than 9000, including 2 thousand. Were released from prison. -06D-
Politics
-
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Alexander Bastrykin arrived in Grozny, where he held a meeting on the investigation of the crash of the plane "Azerbaijan Airlines".
-
On 28 December, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.
-
On December 28 president of Ukrain called to the president of Azerbaijan İlham Aliyev.
-
The preliminary investigation into the case of Russian oligarch and former "state minister" of the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh, Ruben Vardanyan, has been completed. According to a joint statement by the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, Vardanyan has been charged under the following articles of the Azerbaijani Criminal Code: Article 100 (planning or waging aggressive war), Article 107 (deportation or coercion of the population), Article 109 (persecution), Article 112 (deprivation of liberty in violation of international law), Article 113 (torture), Article 114 (mercenary activities), Article 115 (violating laws and customs of war), Article 116 (violating laws and customs of war), Article 214 (terrorism), Article 214-1 (financing terrorism), Article 218 (organization of a criminal community), Article 228 (illegal trafficking in weapons), Article 270-1 (creating threats to aviation safety), Article 278 (violent seizure of power or violent retention of power, violent change of the constitutional order of the state), Article 279 (creation of illegal armed formations), Article 318 (illegal crossing of the Azerbaijani state border).
Leave a review