Sense in motion

Azerbaijani parliament is preparing to amend to the criminal and criminal procedural legislation with goals to reduce the period of custody pending trial and to increase a practice of cash collateral.

For incomprehensible reasons, the forthcoming changes and amendments of the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code were met with hostility by a number of human rights defenders and members who called them meaningless.

However, the president of the IOLR Javanshir Suleymanov, describing such allegations as superficial and incompetent, said about the progressive nature of the impending change of the law.

“The reduction of the detention in pre-trial and trial productions, and together with it the grounds for the application of this preventive measure is a positive step in the legislative activity, that it is obvious to lawyers.

As for the collateral, then this measure of restraint in Azerbaijan is hardly used, as large amount of bail set only for crimes that are not of public danger or less serious crimes. People prefer to use the money in bribes, not collateral, because in the first case, the prosecution is stopped, and the second one, it should still negotiating with the court”, – said J. Suleymanov.

“Consequently, it should not swear all actions of the authorities indiscriminately because it can made stopping all actions. It is true, if all do not get, as always, even if they really want a better” – summed up the human rights activist.

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