further increases the social responsibility of the government. While current challenges and needs for avoidance of imposing of restrictions to the right of freedom of perpetrator and violators of law, humanizing of the relevant criminal prosecution and criminal execution policies, and avoidance of the practice of isolation of individuals from the society gradually are prioritized under the Executive Order, its enforcement also becomes an integral part of government policies. One of the basic provisions that should be specifically highlighted in the Executive Order is establishment of the Probation Service under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan to modernize the work of penitentiary institutions, renew their infrastructures and continue actions for improvement of the administration mechanism; arrange an effective control over execution of the penalties other than isolation from the society; and increase the efficiency of related governance. This institute will engage in an effective control over the execution of alternative penalties other that isolation from the society. It should be mentioned that the Ombudsman repeatedly addressed to probation issues within the framework of her activity under the NPM and this issue was also included in the Recommendations for the 2016 NPM Report and is being currently implemented. Also, due to its affectivity, the Executive Order will have an impact on giving wide publicity to further restriction of the bases for addition of alternative penalties to imprisonment to the sanctions of the criminal offences in draft laws developed by the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan and improvement of the bases for application of the available alternative penalties; application of conclusive actions other than arrest if the public dangerousness of any offence committed is related to material damage and the damage made is completely compensated; replacement of non-served part of the penalty of imprisonment with a lesser penalty; release on probation from the non-served part of penalties and application of probation institutes more widely; expansion of the cases of application of a conclusive action alternatively to arrest; facilitation of replacement of arrest with conclusive actions which are alternative to arrest; and choosing of the conclusive action of arrest for minor or less serious crimes. Enabling a satisfactory improvement of court practices in the context of legal reforms in addition to inspection and investigation authorities and reduction of the criminality dynamics, these approaches also prioritize protection of interests of every citizen from illegal intents, prevention of misconduct and corruption cases, and protection of dignity and honor. 57

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