{"id":246937,"date":"2022-05-31T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/?p=246937"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T10:36:19","slug":"amnesty-act-grants-pardon-to-generals-involved-in-former-ministry-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/amnesty-act-grants-pardon-to-generals-involved-in-former-ministry-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty Act grants pardon to generals involved in former ministry scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year on the occasion of the Independence Day in Azerbaijan, May 28th, President Ilham Aliyev signs an amnesty act, pardoning sentences of a group of people who are in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of pardon orders signed on May 27 this year included four officers of the Ministry of National Security (MNS), which was abolished in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The generals have been sentenced by abuse of power and for acting as an organized group between 2014 and 2015, causing psychological and physical harm by detaining people, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for releasing them, threatening their relatives with violence, arrest, and releasing embarrassing information about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scandal is known in Azerbaijan as the &#8216;MNS case&#8217;. Two months after the operation, President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the establishment of the State Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service, effectively disbanding the MNS as a body. However, it is believed that the group<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/ola-bilsin-mtn-ciler-bu-yolla-zerersizlesdirilir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> was not completely dismantled<\/a> and continues to act in a similar manner in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time in the last 20 years that such a large number of people with grave sentences have been released in an amnesty act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on the occasion of the Independence Day in &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Amnesty Act grants pardon to generals involved in former ministry scandal\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/amnesty-act-grants-pardon-to-generals-involved-in-former-ministry-scandal\/#more-246937\" aria-label=\"Read more about Amnesty Act grants pardon to generals involved in former ministry scandal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":246945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-news","category-politics","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amnesty Act grants pardon to generals involved in former ministry scandal - MEYDAN.TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/amnesty-act-grants-pardon-to-generals-involved-in-former-ministry-scandal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amnesty Act grants pardon to generals involved in former ministry scandal - MEYDAN.TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every year on the occasion of the Independence Day in ... 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