Pardoned Murderer Thanks President Ilham Aliyev For Opportunity To Reunite With His Family
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 8. Rovshan Abdullayev,
who was pardoned, following a recent decree of the head of state,
told trend he was
thankful to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev for the
opportunity.
According to Abdullayev, he was convicted of premeditated
murder.
"I spent nine years in prison. There were still two years one
month 18 days left. I am grateful to the President for the pardon.
On my own behalf and on behalf of my family, I thank the esteemed
President," he said.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on
pardoning a number of convicts on the occasion of the 100th
anniversary of the national leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar
Aliyev. The pardon decree is scheduled to be executed by May
10.
According to the Decree, as many as 801 convicts were pardoned,
of which 463 people were released from imprisonment, 220 people
from half of the unserved part of the punishment in the form of
imprisonment, 118 people from other punishments not related to
imprisonment (restriction of liberty, correctional labor,
punishment in the form of a fine and persons sentenced to suspended
sentence).
A total of 14 of the pardoned convicts are foreigners, 12 of
them are being fully released from punishment, and two are from
half of the sentence. Four convicted foreigners are subject to
forced expulsion from the country after being released from
punishment by the relevant sentence. Since other citizens of
foreign countries are Azerbaijanis by ethnicity or their family
members are citizens of Azerbaijan, forced expulsion will not be
applied to them.
As many as 10 convicts were released from punishment on the
basis of appeals from human rights organizations.
This decree is the largest act of pardon adopted in the history
of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan in terms of the number of
persons to whom it applies in comparison with the pardon order of
May 24, 2018, adopted on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of
the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, applied to 634 convicts.
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