(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 29. Azerbaijan has set
up stands explaining the rights of foreign convicts serving their
sentences in four languages: Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, and
English, the head of the legal department of the Penitentiary
Service of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan, Colonel of
Justice Ziya Dadashov, said, Trend reports.
He made the statement at a seminar on“Protection of the rights
of foreigners and stateless persons held in institutions, which
persons cannot leave at will,” held on August 29.
Dadashov noted that citizens of the US, Bangladesh, Belarus,
China, Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq,
Congo, Liberia, the Maldives, Morocco, Egypt, Moldova, Nigeria,
Oman, Oman, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Guinea, Pakistan,
Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, and
Ukraine are serving sentences in penitentiary institutions of the
republic.
Furthermore, four stateless persons, four citizens of Russia,
four citizens of Georgia, one citizen of Iran, and one citizen of
Kazakhstan are serving life imprisonment sentences.
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