President of Azerbaijan signs pardon order on 100th anniversary of Heydar Aliyev
Baku, The Gulf Observer: Underlining that the 100th anniversary of founder of the modern Azerbaijani state, genius politician and statesman, National Leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev is the landmark event in the history of our country, revering the dear and eternal memory of the Great Leader, remaining committed to his rich spiritual legacy based on universal values, rule of law and justice ideals, reminding about Heydar Aliyev’s exceptional services in implementation of fundamental reforms to build democratic legal state, the importance he attached to safeguarding human rights and freedoms, continuing humanity, compassion and humanitarian traditions, believing that persons to be released from punishment will make their contribution to development of prosperity of our independent state and society, considering the appeals on pardoning to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan from a group of convicted persons, their family members, Commissioner for human rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan, human rights organizations, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev signed an order “On pardoning of a group of convicted persons on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of National Leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev” on May 8, 2023, according to media reports.
Under the order, 801 convicts were pardoned, of whom 463 persons were released from serving their sentence, 220 persons from serving half of the unserved part of their sentence, 118 persons from other punishments unrelated to imprisonment (restriction of liberty, correctional works, fines, conditional sentence).
It should be noted that this order is the biggest act on pardoning for the number of people covered ever adopted in the history of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan.
