BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 21. The amnesty law in Azerbaijan will come into force on December 22, Trend reports.
On December 19, the Milli Majlis adopted a resolution “On Declaring an Amnesty on the Occasion of the ‘Year of Constitution and Sovereignty.’”
The initiative for the amnesty was proposed by President Ilham Aliyev. The law will apply to a total of 20,000 people and is set to be implemented over a four-month period.