APA reports that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today signed an order pardoning several convicts.
Journalist Faramaz Novruzoglu (Allahverdiyev) is among them.
Nizami District Court sentenced Faramaz Novruzoglu to 4 years 6 months in prison on August 22, 2012.
Faramaz was arrested on April 12, 2012. He faced charges under articles # 220.2 (appeals to active insubordination to legal requirements of representatives of authority and to mass disorders, as well as appeals to violence above citizens) and # 318.1 (crossing of protected frontier of the Azerbaijan Republic without established documents).
Faramaz Novruzoglu was arrested several times. He was pardoned under the order of the Azerbaijani President in 2007.