Azerbaijan, Lankaran, 18 August / Trend corr. P.Aliyeva / Over the past several years, nearly 50,000 Azerbaijani citizens appealed to get refugee status of different countries, Alovsat Aliyev, the head of the Migrant Legal Aid Centre, told Trend .
According to Aliyev, there were not members of political parties and homosexuals amongst people, who applied to get refugee status and political refuge within several years.
The head of the Centre said that more than 10,000 migrants came to Azerbaijan from the Asian countries within several years. Aliyev said that number of people, who came from the European countries, was reduced. If this figure reached 100,000 in 1993, it reduced by 5 or 6% within last two years, he said.
According to Aliyev, facts of labor exploitation in Azerbaijan rise on increasing line. Only seven people applied on labor exploitation in Russia in 2008. The head of the centre connected it with incorrect organization of struggle with labor exploitation facts.
"Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies can not organize struggle with labor exploitation," Aliyev stressed.
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