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339 inmates have been pardoned up to now according to the Commissioner’s motions
Office of Ombudsman
Press-release N1778- 2396/136-11,
27.05.2011 Considering personality, the state of health, family
status of inmates, their behavior during serving their punishment and
basing on
the principle of humanism 90 inmates were pardoned according to the 49th
Pardon Decree of the country President dated May 26, 2011.
From her first days of activity, the Commissioner
for Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan examined the possibility
of
pardoning of inmates in the frame of law according to their own or
family
members appeals. Considering the fact that some of them repent for the
offences
they committed, have been rehabilitated and don’t threaten the society
any more,
she sent motions to the Pardoning Commission for pardoning of 142
prisoners
after the last pardoning decree signed in December, 2010, according to
article
1.4 of the Constitutional Law on Ombudsman.
Considering the motions of the Ombudsman 13 inmates
were pardoned according to the last pardon decree. It should be
mentioned since
the beginning of the activity of Commissioner 339 inmates, including
juveniles,
women, ill persons, and the elderly have been liberated up to date. Eynulla Fatullayev is also among the inmates who
have been pardoned according to the above mentioned Pardon Decree. Press Service