Reforms of Azerbaijan's penitentiary system among key issues - minister
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 5. Reforms of the
penitentiary system of Azerbaijan are among the key issues, Justice
Minister Fikrat Mammadov said, Trend reports.
“Recently, new institutions for juveniles and women prisoners,
who are a vulnerable group in our society, have been commissioned,”
Mammadov noted.
“Azerbaijan constantly demonstrates commitment to the ideas of
humanism. So, over the past period, the President of Azerbaijan
pardoned nearly 6,000 people,” he further said.
According to him, the act of amnesty, announced in connection
with the Victory Day in the 2020 second Karabakh war - November 8,
became the largest in its scope and affected more than 17,000
people.
“At the same time, thanks to close cooperation with the
International Committee of the Red Cross, progress has been made in
the fight against tuberculosis in the penitentiary system,' added
the minister.
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