On Thursday a Public Alliance "Azerbaijan has no political prisoners" presented a report titled: "The conditions in places of detention and the situation with the rights of prisoners."
The report is based on information from prisoners and their families, as well as on the observations of the members of the Alliance, founded by former political prisoners and "prisoners of conscience."
Coordinator of the Alliance , Oktay Gulalyev said that human rights defenders are not able to monitor in prisons because of obstacles on the part of the management of the Prison Service, which also refused to answer requests.
"We have filed a lawsuit against the head of the Prison Service, Madat Guliyev, and on June 4 the case will be considered in the Baku Administrative Economic Court N 1," said Gulalyev.
According to him, the situation in the prisons is hard, corruption is rampant, and there is discrimination against prisoners.
"The most depressing is that the prisoners diseased with AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases are kept together with healthy. Food of prisoners is also a source of disease. Many of the prisoners try to eat the food delivered from homoes," said Gulalyev.
Recently there often facts of torture of prisoners. He called 10 officials involved in these facts: Arshad Mammadov (former head of the 14th jail), Alzamin Guliyev (the current head of the 14th jail), Rauf Mejidov (Tartar district police chief, and before deputy chief of Sabirabad police); Seyfeddin Guliyev (chief duty of the Sabirabad district police), Sayid Seyidov (head of the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime MIA), Azer Seyidov (Head of the Baku prison), Osman Sahin (head of the covered Gobustan prison), Aftandil Agayev (the prison N12) , Shakir Bayramov (Head of Ganja jail.)
According to Gulalyev, the rights of arrested are violated from the moment of their arrest. All trading points and services centers in prisons pay bribe the leadership. Thus, the bathhouse attendant pays a month 900 manat, responsible worker for the dining room pays 900 manat, telephone operator pays 2000 manat, the chief food warehouse pays most of all," said Gulalyev.
Альянс выступил с рядом рекомендаций по улучшению ситуации. В частности,
предложено изменить законодательство, закрыть СИЗО и колонии с тяжелыми условиями содержания, расследовать факты коррупции и др.
The Alliance made a number of recommendations to improve the situation. In particular, it was proposed to amend the legislation, to close the detention centers and prison in bad conditions, to investigate cases of corruption, etc.
He also called on the ICRC, the Council of Europe and other organizations to keep the focus on the situation in Azerbaijani prisons.
Another member of the alliance, Elshan Hasanov, said that the monitoring will be continued, and a report on the situation in the Gobustan prison will be published soon.
Sakina Gurbanova, mother of a young activist of NIDA, Zaur Gurbanly, suffering from thalassemia, said that the authorities want her son's death.
"If something happens to my son, the responsibility for this will be bare the authorities of Azerbaijan," she said.
Commenting on the accusations made at the presentations, the representative
Department of Public Relations of the Prison Service has rejected accusations of the agency, calling them absurd.
In the Prison Service it was told that the establishments of this department are open to international monitoring agencies which meet with detainees in private.
As for the infrastructure, currently new penitentiary institutions that meet international standards are under construction.—16C06-
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