The Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers urge
the Azerbaijani authorities to find a speedy and permanent solution
to the issue of political prisoners and presumed political prisoners
:
i by releasing the three remaining
political prisoners as determined by the independent experts;
ii by immediately releasing presumed political prisoners
who have already served several years of their sentence, in application
of the provisions of the Criminal Code relating to conditional release;
iii by releasing or retrying presumed political prisoners
whose convictions were in breach of fair trial principles;
iv by releasing on humanitarian grounds presumed political
prisoners who are seriously ill;
v by releasing or retrying presumed political prisoners
who were involved in certain political events only to a minor and
very secondary degree, seeing as the people presumed to have instigated
the events have themselves already been pardoned;
vi by releasing presumed political prisoners who have no
connection with the events in question other than that they are
relatives, friends or mere acquaintances of leading members of former
governments ; and it welcomes the undertaking by the Azerbaijani
authorities to “make use of every legal remedy (amnesty, review
of cases by higher-instance courts, conditional release, release
on health condition, pardon) to settle this problem”.