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ONLY TWO POLITICAL PRISONERS AMONG 101 PARDONED PEOPLE IN AZERBAIJAN
13:26 19/03/2015 >> LAW
The decree of the president of Azerbaijan about pardoning has come
into force. The decree signed on 18 March by Ilham Aliyev applied to
101 people, Azerbaijani information agency APA reports.
The list of those pardoned includes Bashir Suleymanli, the executive
director of Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, Ramil
Veliyev, detained during the protest Freedom to Hijab, and Orkhan
Eyubzadeh, NIDA civil movement activist. News outlet Haqqin.az
adds that Musavat opposition party activist Shahla Mukhtarova is
in the list. The full list of those pardoned is published on the
site 1news.az.
At the beginning of 2013 NIDA movement activists called on the
people to take part in the protest against the numerous deaths
of Azerbaijani soldiers in non-combat situation. Thus, in 2012,
according to "Doctrine", the Azerbaijani military investigations
center, 97 soldiers were killed in the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan,
80% of which died in the non-combat situation.
On the eve of the protest of 10 March 2013 three activists were
detained. They were charged with possessing Molotov cocktails that they
allegedly were going to use during the protest. Civil Movement NIDA
denied the claims of the MNS and the Prosecutor General's Office of
Azerbaijan that during the search of the apartment of three activists
Molotov cocktails and drugs had been found. Relatives of the arrested
stated that all that stuff "found" in the apartments was planted by
the Azerbaijani enforcers.
At the end of 2010 the Azerbaijani authorities banned wearing hijabs
at school which gave rise to mass protest of Muslim believers in
the republic. In January 2011, the leader of the Islamic Party of
Azerbaijan Movsum Samedov condemned Azerbaijani authorities for
banning the headscarves in schools, denounced corruption and human
rights violations in the country and called on the Azerbaijani people
to rise against the oppressive regime. Samedov and several of his
supporters were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms. 2012
also saw dozens of cases of Muslim believers' arrests on various
charges from drug possession to cooperating with Special Services
of Iran, weapon possession, organizing acts of terrorism, etc. On
22 April, 2013 eight participants of the protest Freedom to Hijab -
which had taken place on 5 October, 2012 in front of the building of
the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan - were convicted.
The Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre carried out
a monitoring of the presidential elections on 9 November, 2013 and
pointed out numerous violations of law. In late October Prosecutor
General's Office of Azerbaijan filed a criminal case and carried out
investigations on Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre. In
May 2014 the executive director of the Centre Bashir Suleymanli was
sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment.
http://www.panorama.am/en/law/2015/03/19/azerbaijan-prisoners/
13:26 19/03/2015 >> LAW
The decree of the president of Azerbaijan about pardoning has come
into force. The decree signed on 18 March by Ilham Aliyev applied to
101 people, Azerbaijani information agency APA reports.
The list of those pardoned includes Bashir Suleymanli, the executive
director of Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, Ramil
Veliyev, detained during the protest Freedom to Hijab, and Orkhan
Eyubzadeh, NIDA civil movement activist. News outlet Haqqin.az
adds that Musavat opposition party activist Shahla Mukhtarova is
in the list. The full list of those pardoned is published on the
site 1news.az.
At the beginning of 2013 NIDA movement activists called on the
people to take part in the protest against the numerous deaths
of Azerbaijani soldiers in non-combat situation. Thus, in 2012,
according to "Doctrine", the Azerbaijani military investigations
center, 97 soldiers were killed in the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan,
80% of which died in the non-combat situation.
On the eve of the protest of 10 March 2013 three activists were
detained. They were charged with possessing Molotov cocktails that they
allegedly were going to use during the protest. Civil Movement NIDA
denied the claims of the MNS and the Prosecutor General's Office of
Azerbaijan that during the search of the apartment of three activists
Molotov cocktails and drugs had been found. Relatives of the arrested
stated that all that stuff "found" in the apartments was planted by
the Azerbaijani enforcers.
At the end of 2010 the Azerbaijani authorities banned wearing hijabs
at school which gave rise to mass protest of Muslim believers in
the republic. In January 2011, the leader of the Islamic Party of
Azerbaijan Movsum Samedov condemned Azerbaijani authorities for
banning the headscarves in schools, denounced corruption and human
rights violations in the country and called on the Azerbaijani people
to rise against the oppressive regime. Samedov and several of his
supporters were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms. 2012
also saw dozens of cases of Muslim believers' arrests on various
charges from drug possession to cooperating with Special Services
of Iran, weapon possession, organizing acts of terrorism, etc. On
22 April, 2013 eight participants of the protest Freedom to Hijab -
which had taken place on 5 October, 2012 in front of the building of
the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan - were convicted.
The Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre carried out
a monitoring of the presidential elections on 9 November, 2013 and
pointed out numerous violations of law. In late October Prosecutor
General's Office of Azerbaijan filed a criminal case and carried out
investigations on Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre. In
May 2014 the executive director of the Centre Bashir Suleymanli was
sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment.
http://www.panorama.am/en/law/2015/03/19/azerbaijan-prisoners/