Execution of Punishments and Penitentiary Service of the Ministry are
informed about each fact of application of the special means in the
penitentiary institutions. The investigation is conducted on received
information and reasonableness of application of special means is checked
out. Illegal or groundless application of special means was not registered.
On the paragraph 25 (conduction of measures by the Ministry of
Justice in the direction of increasing the quality of legal assistance rendered
especially in regions out of the capital, increasing the numbers of lawyers
and legal advice offices):
In compliance with “The State Program on Poverty Reduction and
Sustainable Development in the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2008-2015 years” the
ministry provided the functioning of regional legal advice service centers in the
regions in order to aware the poor population on their civil rights, widening their
opportunities to access to free of charge legal assistance services.
These centers were placed in the administrative buildings of central
judicial bodies and courts, the specialists were provided with necessary legal
literature and technical means, deep learning by them of international
documents and national legislation regarding human rights protection was
under focus of attention.
Withal, within the frames of the jointly with World Bank project
“Modernization of the justice system” free of charge legal advice centers
were functioning from 2010 to 2013 in Baku and Guba cities. In these
centers the special attention was paid to the issues of protection of social
rights of families with low income and the relevant measures were carried
out in representation of applied persons’ rights at court.
Undertaking of measures in expanding the activity of free of charge
legal advice centers during 2015-2018 years is considered in the frames of
the project “Progressive judicial services and modern court infrastructure”
planned to be realized with financial support of the World Bank.
The Law Clinic under the Academy of Justice of the Ministry has
started functioning from September 2013, within the frames of the joint
“Program of Support to Reform in the sphere of Justice” implemented with
European Commission with the purpose to enlightening the practical skills to
lawyers and to render free of charge legal assistance to the strata of
population with low-income. At the clinic under the supervision of lawyers
and professors of the Academy the owners of the legal specialization render
legal assistance in a form of advice to groups of population with low-income
– pensioners, persons with disabilities, refugees and internally displaces
persons, studying young people and other persons.
On the paragraph 26 (considering the density and dissatisfactory
conditions in relevant wagons considered for escort of detained persons
from penitentiary institutions to the temporary detention places (and
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