The holding of the meeting of the Working Group on Prisoners’ Problems on 16 September under the chairmanship of Ali Husseynova, the chairman of the Legislation Commission of the Milli Majlis (Parliament), is still questionable. “The date of the meeting will be determined in the end of the day, Murad Sadeddinov, a member of the Working Group, told
Trend.
According to Sadeddinov, the planned meeting is supposed to discuss the two lists of prisoners submitted to the CE. The first includes 107 names, the latter вЂ" 43.
71 prisoner have been released so far and the fates of the rest are expected to be decided by the 4th meeting. “The meeting will focus on proposals on amnesty and consider numerous applications by the prisoners. The list submitted by us includes political prisoners and former members of the special police division.
I’ll personally propose to consider the releasing of Rasim Akbarov, the former chief of police in Ganja, and Bayram Guliyev, the brother of ex-speaker Rasul Guliyev, as Akbarov has health problems and the arrest of Guliyev is ordered,” he underlined.