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Baku/18.03.21/Turan: Among 625 persons pardoned today, 38 people are considered political prisoners, Rasul Jafarov, a human rights activist, told Turan. Among them, 28 people were convicted in the case of the riots in the Nardaran settlement in 2015. Four members of the Popular Front Party were also released, among them journalist Elchin Ismail.
One person convicted in the 2018 Ganja riots case has been released. One Islamist convicted of protesting against the ban on wearing the hijab at school, is released. Another political prisoner is a relative of a political emigrant living abroad. -02D-
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2021 March 18 (Thursday) 16:19:24
I. Aliyev issued a decree on pardon
Baku/18.03.21/Turan: On March 18, Ilham Aliyev issued a decree pardoning several hundred convicts. Some have their prison sentences reduced, and some will be released. The total number of those pardoned was 625. So, 475 people will be released.
The term of imprisonment for 98 convicts was reduced by half.
The term of imprisonment for three life-sentenced prisoners is 25 years.
Two are exempted from suspended sentences.
Three are released from the deferred punishment.
Nine people are exempted from the restriction of freedom.
Twelve people were released from correctional labor.
Twenty-three people were exempted from fines.
Among those pardoned, there are also persons considered political prisoners. -02D-
Politics
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Russia is doing everything it can to normalize the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and facilitate the signing of a peace treaty between Yerevan and Baku, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during a ceremony for the presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors.
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"The people of Azerbaijan are trapped. They can only enter or leave the country via the airport. Even if I could go there, I wouldn’t. I don’t want to legitimize the regime." This was stated by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg in an interview with Blankspot. She arrived in Tbilisi, from where she plans to travel to Armenia. She expressed that she has no expectations from the upcoming COP29 climate summit.
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The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry declined to clarify for Turan the conflict reported by the Politico website between Azerbaijan's Ambassador to the EU Vagif Sadikhov and Armenia's head of diplomatic representation to the EU, Tigran Balayan. The Ministry only confirmed that Politico had indeed communicated with the Azerbaijani ambassador and that he told the foreign media outlet that everything Balayan claimed was false.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Kyrgyzstan on November 5 to participate in the 11th Summit of Heads of State of the Organisation of Turkic States.
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