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By Amina Nazarli

The Ombudsman Apparatus of Azerbaijan has so far appealed for pardoning of 518 people.

Head of the Ombudsman Office Aydin Safikhanli announced about this during discussions on the 2016 report by Azerbaijan’s Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) at the Parliament on March 1.

Safikhanli said that the Ombudsman received 148,750 appeals during 15 years of the activity and some 18,740 just last year.

Safikhanli further mentioned that the Ombudsman accepted 3,636 people in 2016.

Some 57.4 percent of the received complaints were rejected as they were not related to the Ombudsman's authority. As much as 42.6 percent of received complaints were examined and 63.65 percent of them were satisfied.

Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, the head of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, Bahar Muradova, in turn, said that a lot of work done in the sphere of protection of human rights in Azerbaijan.

“This area is a priority for the state,” she said, adding that a high level cooperation was established between the Parliament and the Ombudsman Office.

The committee members then decided to submit the report for a discussion at one of the parliament’s plenary sessions.

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