relation to the disease of drug addiction’ in Clause 74-1; and ‘deferral of serving of pregnant women or women with a child under 14 as well as men growing their children under 14 lonely to their sentence until the child reaches 14 (this figure was 8 in the previous edition)’ in Clause 79; were mainly related to exemption from liability for crimes in economic activity with a mass nature and in relation to drug addiction disease, and came into force as of December 1, 2017. In order to prevent application of restriction in relation of the right to freedom of offenders or violators of law, cooperation with state authorities and civil society institutes on relevant pillars was performed, and about 50 proposals of the Ombudsman on the relevant sections, in particular those related to exemption from criminal liability, were taken into consideration in making amendments to the Criminal Code. As a prohibiting norm, such provisions as unacceptance of application of violation, intimidation, deceit, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading acts were added to the Clauses of the Criminal Procedural Code, which are related to guaranteeing of the right to freedom and the right to privacy, collection of evidences, and conduction of investigation during criminal trial action on the detention facilities and criminal cases. Considering that a vast number of selection of the conclusive action of arrest on suspects in criminal cases by investigation authorities, a long duration of investigation of criminal cases, failure of arrested persons, in particular adolescents to see their investigators for a long time, and prolongation of the arrest period lead to increase in compactness in investigation isolators, challenges related to detention conditions, and inclination to criminal behaviors among adolescents, the Ombudsman offered application of alternative conclusive actions widely. It should be noted that these proposals and recommendations were drafted and raised on the basis of the position of the CAT. The Ombudsman’s proposals as the NPM were related to establishment and application of a probation service and were approved by considering their addition to the Penal Execution Code in Clause 15-1. By the way, in order to ensure execution of the requirements if the Executive Order, the Rules for Determination of the Types of Works into Which Individuals Imposed to the Penalty of Social Works the Places to Conduct Such Works was approved by Decree No 438 of October 17, 2017 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to this document, the penalty of social works include implementation of unpaid socially useful works in favor of the society in free times of the individuals imposed to this penalty from their key job or education. 61

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