At the trial in the case of Mamed Ibrahim, the adviser to the head of the Popular Fro Party accused of hooliganism, one of the victims spoke. Oruj Veliyev claimed that on 29 November, 2015, he tried to separate Ibrahim and Mikail Guliyev near the teahouse in the Narimanov district, but Ibrahim attacked him and repeatedly struck. The investigation presented a forensic examination of the receipt of a less serious injury. However, according to Ibrahim, during the incident Veliyev was not there at all.
Responding to questions from the lawyer Yalcin Imanov, the victim Veliyev contradicted his own testimony at the inquest. So in court, he admitted that he went to the police on October 1, though at the preliminary investigation he alleged that he was taken to the police together with the participants of the incident. In court, Veliyev said that Ibrahim gave struck him, but at the investigation he said that there were a few strikes. He explained the contradictions in the testimony by his poor memory and inability to perceive events. In this regard, the lawyer orally requested a forensic medical examination of the Veliyev to determine his adequacy. The court left the petition not considered. At the next meeting on 22 January the lawyer intends to put forward a repeated motion.
The lawyer Imanov said that Oruj Veliyev and Muhammad Gurbanov were "backdated" involved as victims, to reinforce the charge with a simple "hooliganism" for "hooliganism with the use of violence against protecting public order."
Ibrahim was arrested on a complaint of the former party member Mikail Guliyev, who left the organization, together with the ex-deputy head of APFP Razi Nurullayev. However, at the previous meeting, Guliyev refused to complaint against Ibrahim.
The PPFA believes that a provocation was committed against Ibrahim in order to discredit the party. Initially, Ibrahim was charged under the Article 221.1 (hooliganism) of the Criminal Code providing for up to one year imprisonment. Later, the investigation retroactively caught two "victims" and reclassified the charges to Article 221.2.2, for which he can be imprisoned up to five years. -06B-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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