Baku/20.12.22/Turan: Imprisoned social and political activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev continues his hunger strike. The activist has been on hunger strike for 6 days. The penitentiary service does not confirm this, but his relatives and lawyers say so.
According to his relatives, the information published in some media outlets about the termination of the hunger strike by the activist is not true. “Bakhtiyar has been on hunger strike for the sixth day. He is protesting the arrest,” they say.
The message that Bakhtiyar Hajiyev had stopped his hunger strike was circulated in some media outlets. It was reported that after a preventive conversation with B. Hajiyev, he agreed to stop the hunger strike and began to eat normally. Press Secretary of the Penitentiary Service Mehman Sadigov confirmed this information in his statement to the media.
Recently, public figure B. Hajiyev met with his lawyer Agil Layij. The lawyer said that the public activist continues his hunger strike. Rufat Safarov, co-founder of the human rights organization Line of Defense, said that Bakhtiyar Hajiyev's life and health were in danger in the pre-trial detention center N1.
Zafar Ahmedov, co-founder of the human rights organization “Defense Line,” talks about all this in the “Difficult Question” program of Kamran Mahmudov.
According to him, since the detention of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, the "Defense Line" has constantly, online, received information about Hajiyev.
“We know that immediately after the trial he went on a hunger strike and did not stop it for a minute. The question is that he is subjected to severe physical and psychological torture. They picked him up at 5 in the morning, handcuffed him and left there for 8 hours. He was not allowed to drink, refusing water. Taking him out of the punishment cell, Hajiyev was taken to the head of the pre-trial detention center, who offered to write a new statement about the reason for the hunger strike, which would not mention the names of the country's president, Interior Minister Vilayat Eyvazov and other officials. However, Hajiyev refused to do so,” the human rights activist said.
Ahmedov also said that after a conversation with the head of the pre-trial detention center, Hajiyev was taken to the medical unit, where he was taken to a room with cellmates.
“As it turned out, they were beaten so that they demanded that Hajiyev stop the hunger strike and promised to continue the torture if he did not agree with this proposal. But Hajiyev told them that they could not “prove” anything to him, including according to “concepts,” as he defends his rights,” the human rights activist said.--0--
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