The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on October 14 for a pardon of 153 convicts. According to the order of the sentence in prison will be released 134 people.
Two convicts are released from probation . Another 16 people are exempt from the payment of fines. Another man is relieved of his labor.
Among those pardoned there is former economic development minister Farhad Aliyev and his brother Rafiq Aliyev , who were arrested in 2005 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government and subsequently sentenced respectively to 10 and 9 years in prison for economic crimes.
Recall that on the eve of the elections, they expressed support for Ilham Aliyev and renounced the opposition candidate Jamil Gasanli, who once headed the Public Committee for the protection of their rights. -0 -
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The agreement reached at the COP29 climate summit has been hailed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as a critical step in global efforts to combat climate change. Speaking after the conclusion of high-stakes negotiations, Guterres emphasized that the agreement is pivotal for maintaining the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, a threshold considered crucial to preventing the worst impacts of climate change.
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On 23 November at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, eco-activists from different countries held a protest action against the failure of countries to agree on climate finance.
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On the eve of the closing of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has drawn attention to the criminal cases of journalists detained in Azerbaijan.
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Negotiations at the 29th session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku have been extended until November 24, a source in the UNFCCC Secretariat told the Turan news agency. According to the source, participants aim to finalize and sign the concluding documents by that date.
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