The US State Department highly appreciates Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s decision to pardon 87 individuals.
“In this regard, President Aliyev’s decision today to pardon 87 individuals, including 10 considered to have been imprisoned for civic activism, is a step in the right direction,” – Jeff Rathke, U.S. State Department spokesman said.
“We urge Azerbaijan’s authorities to build on these pardons by releasing others incarcerated in connection with exercising their fundamental freedoms” –he added.
US State Department on president Aliyev
30 December 2014
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