Public Association "Families of National Heroes" held a hearing on the issue of status. Galiba Budagova, head of the organization said that individuals in this category have no status. She noted that a national hero is issued a star and a certificate, but there is no law that would officially confer benefits and status. Heroes and family members of dead heroes have repeatedly appealed to formal structures, but there has been no resolution of the problem. Speakers called the issue of determining the status ‘problem number one’. If this issue is settled, all the rest will be easier to solve. In this regard, other appeals will be prepared and sent to the formal structures.
Speakers noted that national heroes receive 600 manat, but there are no additional benefits in the form of vouchers to sanatoriums, flats, etc. In some cases, due to lack of status as a national hero, they are deprived of many rights. -05C04
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Meetings of the Amnesty Issues Commission under the President of Azerbaijan are set to resume, with expectations that a new presidential amnesty decree will be issued. The last such decree was signed on May 25 of the previous year, ahead of Independence Day (May 28). That decree covered 154 individuals, of whom 63 were released from imprisonment, while the sentences of 52 others were reduced by half. The remaining individuals were mostly freed from electronic monitoring or had their sentences commuted in other ways.
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The National Hydrometeorology Service of Azerbaijan has forecast a mostly dry and cold day across the country on February 11, with occasional cloud cover in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula.
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Afiyaddin Mamedov, chairman of the trade union NGO “Workers’ Table Confederation,” has launched an indefinite hunger strike in prison to protest what he describes as worsening social conditions and the arrests of citizens in Azerbaijan, his family said on Friday.
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A fire erupted in a multi-story residential building in Khirdalan, Absheron district, prompting an immediate response from Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (FHN), authorities said on Saturday.
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