Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demanded the release of Fikret Huseynli from Ukraine
Baku / 09.03.18 / Turan: "We urge the authorities of Ukraine to immediately return documents to journalist Fikret Huseynli and allow him to leave the territory of this country, to find and punish those guilty of persecution of a journalist in Ukraine," reads the statement of the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York.
The statement on behalf of the employee Nina Ognianova states that the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan did not respond to the request of CPJ in the case of Huseynli, who is a political emigrant and who has Dutch citizenship.
On February 5, Huseynli's rented apartmentwas attcaked, but he managed to escape. Huseynli was detained on October 14, 2017 when flying from Kiev to Dusseldorf on the basis of Azerbaijan's request through Interpol. He is accused of fraud and illegal crossing of borders. On October 18, 2017 Borispol City Court of Ukraine arrested him for 18 days to consider the issue of his extradition to Azerbaijan.
On October 27, Lukyanovka Court of Kiev released Huseynli on bail of Deputy Mykola Knyazhytskyi and the public figure Boris Zakharov. At the same time, the court rejected the state prosecutor's request to extradite Huseynli to Azerbaijan. The Kiev prosecutor's office filed an appeal against the release of Huseynli, demanding his arrest. The trial began on January 17, but was postponed four times. Finally, on February 13, the court refused extradition.
This week there was an attempt by the police to detain Huseynli in an apartment where he temporarily lives in Kiev, but he managed to escape. The journalist is convinced that they want to steal and extradite to the authorities of Azerbaijan. -16D-
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