Aliyev pardons paper editor
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday signed a decree to
pardon 62 prisoners, including the editor of opposition newspaper
Azadlig Ganimat Zahid.
Zahid was convicted for four years in 2007 on charges of hooliganism.
Also, the presidential decree pardoned seven people whose freedoms had been restricted. It also ordered the release of a woman whose sentence had been suspended.
The conviction of another person sentenced to a life sentence was commuted to twenty years imprisonment. Among those pardoned is also a person who had been fined.*
Zahid was convicted for four years in 2007 on charges of hooliganism.
Also, the presidential decree pardoned seven people whose freedoms had been restricted. It also ordered the release of a woman whose sentence had been suspended.
The conviction of another person sentenced to a life sentence was commuted to twenty years imprisonment. Among those pardoned is also a person who had been fined.*
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