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PACE President welcomes the decree of pardon in Azerbaijan

Politics Materials 18 March 2016 02:18 (UTC +04:00)
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Pedro Agramunt welcomed the pardon decree signed by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
PACE President welcomes the decree of pardon in Azerbaijan

Baku, Azerbaijan, March 18

By Anakhanum Hidayatova - Trend:

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Pedro Agramunt welcomed the pardon decree signed by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, said in a statement posted on the official website of PACE.

"Today I received the good news that 148 people were released in Azerbaijan", he said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on March 17 pardoning 148 people.

Under the decree, 137 people, sentenced to imprisonment, have been freed from serving the remainder of the prison terms.

Moreover, six people were freed from the remainder of the correctional labor and five people were freed from the penalty in the form of a fine.

Sixteen foreign citizens are among the pardoned.

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