Arrest of NIDA Activist Uzeyir Mammadli Extended by 2 Months
Nasimi District Court Court extended the arrest of the member of the movement NIDA Uzeyir Mammadli by 2 months. According to his lawyer, Fakhraddin Mehdiyev, the arrest term has been extended to 30 November.
Note that currently under arrest are 7 members of the movement NIDA:
Mahammad Azizov, Bakhtiyar Guliyev, Shahin Novruzlu, Rashadat Akhundov, Uzeyir Mammadli, Rashad Hasanov and Zaur Gurbanly. They are charged under articles 234.1 (acquisition, storage and sale of drugs), 228.1 (acquisition, storage and transport of weapons and explosives). September 12 to these persons and a member of Free Youth Ilkin Rustamzadeh new charges were put forward under article 220.1 (organization of mass disorders).
They face a penalty of up to 12 years in prison. Amnesty International believes the young people "prisoners of conscience." -16D04-
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