Execution of presidential pardon order starts in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, June 23 /Trend M.Aliyev/ The Azerbaijani Interior Ministry's Penal Service has launched implementing a pardon order signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday. The order pardoned 66 people sentenced to imprisonment, 58 people sentenced to limitation of freedom, two people sentenced to the punishment as correctional work, six people sentenced to punishment in form of fine. People detained during an unauthorized protest rally on April 2, 2011 in Baku were among the pardoned: head of the central executive body of the party Musavat Arif Hajili, Tural Abbasli, Zulfugar Eyvazov, Rufat Hajibeyli Babek Hasanov, Sahib Karimov, Ahad Mammadli, Mohammed Madzhidli, Ulvi Guliyev. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az