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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8917

31 March 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/azerbaijan
EU welcomes freeing of political prisoners

Brussels, 30/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Union “welcomes” the decree signed on 20 March 2005 by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, pardoning 115 prisoners, of which 53 had been designated political prisoners by Council of Europe experts. According to a statement from the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council, published on Wednesday, the EU welcomed the freeing of political leaders incarcerated following events in October 2003 and believes that Azerbaijan has “thus...

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