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LAW OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC

On March 15, 1996 No. 44-IQ

About recovery of victims of political repressions

(as amended on 15-03-2023)

As a result of the arbitrary behavior and violence committed in the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic since April 28, 1920 the totalitarian state regime based on the laws contradicting human rights, hundreds of thousands of innocent people underwent to repressions because of the political views, political activities, dissent and for other reasons.

The purpose of this Law is rehabilitation, recovery of the political, social and civil laws of the victims of the political repressions held in the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic, compensation of moral losses by it and also liquidation of other effects of arbitrary behavior.

Article 1. Concept of political repression

For the purpose of this Law political repression deprivation of life or freedom, the illegal placement to lunatic asylum for forced treatment, expulsion from the country and deprivation of nationality, eviction of national groups from places of their accommodation, the reference, resettlement, sending to the special settlement, different enforcement measures in the form of labor involvement in the conditions of restriction of freedom, and also other sort the deprivation or restriction of the rights and freedoms of persons which are considered socially dangerous to the state and its political system on class, social, national, religious or other features, applied by the state for political reasons and performed by a court decision and other bodies equipped with judicial functions, or administratively performed by bodies and officials of the executive authority, the public organizations or bodies allocated with administrative competences is considered.

Article 2. Victims of political repressions

The victims of political repressions are the persons which underwent to the political repressions specified in article 1 of this Law, members of their families, including, persons which are in places of execution of repression (the reference, resettlement, serving sentence) with the parents or relatives, the children who were born in places of execution of repression in also children of the political victims of political repression sentenced to death.

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