BAKU: The next meeting of the Pardon Issues Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan will be held on April 24, Trend reports.

At the previous two meetings of the commission, more than 200 appeals received by the commission were considered.

This year, the commission will consider more than 700 appeals. Appeals of women, foreigners, servicemen, road accident participants, life imprisonment, etc. will be considered. At the first meeting, more than 100 appeals were considered.

As of today, 69 pardon decrees and 12 amnesty acts have been signed.

The last decree on pardoning a number of convicts was signed on May 8, 2023, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people, Heydar Aliyev.

According to the decree, 801 convicts were pardoned, 463 of them were released from imprisonment, 220 were freed from half of the unserved part of the imprisonment sentence, and 118 were released from other non-custodial punishments (restriction of freedom, correctiona
l works, fines, and parole).

Source: Trend News Agency