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Azerbaijani parliament approves annual report of Human Rights Commissioner

02 April 2010 12:02 (UTC +04:00)

The report was submitted by Human Rights Commissioner Elmira Suleymanova. She said the Commissionerâ€™s office received 8800 letters, including 7365 complaints last year. 982 of the complaints (13.3%) were connected with courts, 415 (5.6%) with prosecuting authorities, 1239 (16.8%) with police, (112, 9% of them with traffic police), 688 (9.3%) with local executive offices, 441 (6%) with the non-execution of judgments, 205 (2.8%) with municipalities.

The complaints were mostly about the bureaucracy and indifference of some local officials, which forced the citizens to address the central governmental agencies.
â€œThe analysis of the complaints gives ground to say that a number of bureaucratic obstacles remain and some officials prefer their personal interests to the legal interests and needs of people. The work of some officials, who ignored the cares and difficulties of the people, were not able to solve their problems, caused the increase of the complaints.â€

Suleymanova said she received totally 51060 appeals during her activity. 83.7% of the appeals were complaints, 16.2% applications, 0.1% proposals.
â€œ48.9% of the complaints were rejected because of time limitation more than a year, anonymity, court proceedings, and non-presence of new facts and evidences in the follow letters. 44.7% of the complaints were addressed, which is appropriate to the European and post-Soviet indexes.â€