Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr K. Zarabaliyeva / In accordance with the recent Amnesty Act, 54 foreigners were released from prisons in Azerbaijan. According to the Public Relations Department of the Central Office of the Penitentiary Service, 11 of the released foreigners are Russian citizens, 13 Georgian, 9 Iranian, 8 Afghan, 5 Pakistani, 2 Turkish, 2 Bangladesh, 2 Ukrainian, 1 Uzbek and 1 Turkmen.
Under the Amnesty Act 2,861 inmates were released from prisons, 1 of the released being underage and 24 women. Thirty-three of the inmates were prisoners of Gobustan closed prison.
On the whole, the Amnesty Act released 9,877 people (85,602 men, 1,317 women, 11 under aged). The amnesty covered 104 military men who were serving temporary disciplinarian punishment in military units, 2,091 people were engaged in reformatory work, 226 people were in public work, 4,225 convicts who do not have money to pay over AZN 3mln of the fine. The amnesty covered 370 people including persons with suspended sentences, persons with deferred sentences and those released from conditional imprisonment
Some 98% of those granted amnesty were charged with crimes which do not represent a serious threat to the public. The persons who committed serious/ very serious crimes with expiring imprisonment term made up 2% of the amnesty grants. Eights amnesty acts covered 87,000 people, including 23,000 inmates from penitentiary establishments.