On June the 3rd within the framework of the "Rule of Law" project organized by the Bar Association of Azerbaijan, IOM Office in Azerbaijan, ASAN Service and with the financial support of the US Department of State, official representatives of above-listed organizations visited the Legal Assistance Centre in the Masalli ASAN Service Centre.

This major point of this project is to provide people with low-income with free legal assistance and increasing their access to professional legal services. Within the framework of the project, the population will be provided with services such as representation in judicial and other state bodies, drafting of legal documents, verbal legal advice.
Similar legal assistance centers were also established in Barda, Imishli and Gabala districts. Assistant lawyers provide legal services, with at least one member of Bar Association at each center.

It should be noted that Masally Legal Aid Center, which started operating in February of the current year, provided legal assistance to 246 people on property, family, labor, inheritance, criminal, administrative cases. 136 of them were related to representation in court, writing of complaints, and other similar legal procedures.

The visit was attended by Mr. William Soley, the US Embassy Advisor on Political Affairs, Mr. Vladimir Gjorgjiev, the Head of the IOM Office in Azerbaijan, and Mr. Farhad Najafov, the Head of the Office of the Presidium of the Bar Association of the Republic of Azerbaijan.