Baku / 04.01.19 / Turan: The Nizami District Court of Baku today ruled on the administrative punishment of those who had taken part in the protest against the new criminal case against the blogger Mehman Huseynov.
All of them were found guilty under Article 513.2 (violation of the rules for holding rallies, pickets and demonstrations) of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
The Azel.tv website editor Afghan Sadigov was arrested for 22 days, the Canal 13 correspondent Nurlan Gahramanov, and the PFPA activists Elimkhan Agayev and Sakhavat Nabiyev were arrested for 21 days each.
The blogger Fatima Movlamly and the PFPA activist Parvin Abysheva were fined 300 manat, and Matanat Mahmudrzayeva (also known as Facebook's Malahat Yagubova) was fined 400 manat. Farid Abdinov, a journalist from online Azad Soz, was fined for the same amount.
The persecution of the protesters was condemned by the PFPA leader, Ali Kerimli. "The action participants, most of whom were women who considered themselves mothers and sisters of Mehman Huseynov, spoke out against injustice at the call of their hearts. The campaign showed that people are not indifferent to Mehman"s fate," Kerimli wrote on his Facebook page.
He called for the release of the blogger and the arrested protesters.
* Mehman Huseynov was arrested in March 2017 and sentenced to 2 years in prison under a libel suit filed by the head of the Nasimi district police. On December 26, he was charged with a new charge of beating a prison employee and placed in a punishment cell. In protest, he went on a dry hunger strike. On December 30, the blogger"s health condition deteriorated sharply, and he fainted. After that, at the insistence of his relatives, he stopped the dry hunger strike and began to take water.
Human rights activists are convinced that Huseynov is being persecuted for exposing corruption among high-ranking officials, as well as criticizing the authorities. -06D--
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