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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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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock held a meeting with representatives of Azerbaijani civil society in the evening of 22 November at the office of Turan news agency.
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock today as part of her official visit to Baku for COP29.
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Journalist Imran Aliyev, held in the 1st Kurdakhany Detention Center near Baku, ended his hunger strike yesterday, which he had begun on November 18. The head of the website Məclis.info, Aliyev was protesting to demand his release, asserting that there was no criminal offense in his actions.
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Germany is trying to prevent the escalation of the military conflict in Europe and is making efforts to do so. Speaking on November 22 at a press conference in Baku, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock responded to a question about whether Berlin would provide "Taurus" missiles to Kyiv after Russia's use of ballistic missiles against Ukraine. "Therefore, this question cannot be answered with a simple 'yes'," she said.
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