OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN ISSUES DECREE ON PARDON
Continuing to pursue the policy of the Azerbaijan State on the base of the principles of humanism and justice, showing respect and honor to the human rights and freedoms, having considered appeals for pardon submitted to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan by a number of convicts, their family members, Non-governmental Organizations and Commissioner for Human Rights, considering their personalities, health situation, family status, completion of the part of the sentences, their behavior during this period, as well as believing in educational significance of discharge, and wishing the pardoned persons to steadily observe laws and join the free society, under the Clause 22 of the Article 109 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev Decreed to discharge some 363 persons from the unserved part of the sentence on May 10, 2004.
The Decree comes into effect from the day of signing.