18 CONVICTS IN KARABAKH RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY

Arka News Agency, Armenia
May 7 2007

STEPANAKERT, May 7. /ARKA/. President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
(NKR) Arkady Ghukasyan signed a decree on "Results of considering
appeals for clemency."

The NKR President’s press service said that 18 people received
presidential clemency, and 22 convicts were pardoned partially.

The appeals of 13 convicts were declined taking into account the
nature, graveness and scale of their crimes, threat to society,
as well as insignificant penitentiary service.