{"id":6067,"date":"2012-12-27T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2012-12-27T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T14:26:13","slug":"political-prisoners-of-azerbaijan-pardon-has-nothing-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=6067&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Political prisoners of Azerbaijan: pardon has nothing changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">December 26, 2012, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree pardoning 87 people, 79 of which are released from a prison sentence, 4 &#8212; from correctional works, another 4 &#8212; from fines. As noted contact.az, among the pardoned two of &#171;prisoners of conscience&#187; &#8212; human rights activist Vidadi Iskandarov and activist of the PPFA Shahin Hasanli and also political prisoners from the list of the PACE rapporteur Christopher Strasser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">These are Shamsi Abdullayev (the case &#171;OPON&#187;), the Iranian television journalist Anar Bayramli, regional correspondent of the newspaper &#171;Khural&#187; Aydin Janiyev, two religious leaders from Ganja &#8212; Azar Jabiyev and Fakhri Ilyasov (arrested in early 2011), a human rights activist Taleh Khasmamedov and Jeyhun Farzullayev convicted on the case of N. Panahli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As it is known, political prisoners are innocently convicted persons on fabricated charges for the desire or attempt to take advantage of the fundamental rights and freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nevertheless, all of the human rights movement in Azerbaijan grateful to the President for showing mercy and waits for an amnesty for the remaining political prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There were political prisoners &#8212; and no political prisoners, but what about the illegal arrests and the courts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">C. Beccaria &#8212; Allah r\u0259hm\u0259t el\u0259sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2012, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree pardoning 87 people, 79 of which are released from a prison sentence, 4 &#8212; from correctional works, another 4 &#8212; from fines. As noted contact.az, among the pardoned two of &#171;prisoners of conscience&#187; &#8212; human rights activist Vidadi Iskandarov and activist of the PPFA Shahin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}