Decision on Extradition of Musaev to Azerbaijan Appealed to Supreme Court of Russia (UPDATED)

The lawyer of the Azerbaijani citizen Ibrahim Musaev Dmitry Sukhomlinov appealed to the Supreme Court on the decision of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to extradite his client, confirmed by the Yaroslavl Regional Court.

The decision on the extradition of the employee of the Ministry of National Security of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan Ibrahim Musaev to Azerbaijan was announced today at the Yaroslavl Regional Court. The Court thus upheld the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia on the extradition of Musaev to Azerbaijan.

The court ruling on the extradition of Musaev shall enter into force upon publication, the lawyer Dmitry Sukhomlinov told Kavkazsky Uzel. "The idea is that now the convoy of the country that insists on the extradition, in this case, Azerbaijan can take him and return him again, under escort, to the country of his nationality," said the lawyer.

However, according to the lawyer, Musaev was not present at the hearing and the lawyer does not know where he is today.

Dmitry Sukhomlinov also announced that he filed an appeal with the Supreme Court against the extradition of Musaev. --0--

2013 September 02 (Monday) 18:18:05

Baku/02.09.13/Turan : Today  the Regional Court  of Yaroslavl Region chaired by Yuri Zuyev has decided to extradite an employee of the Ministry of National Security of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR ), Ibrahim Musayev to Azerbaijan, according to  the  "Caucasian  Uzel."

Musayev stating that the government of Nakhchivan   are engaged in supplying weapons  to  the Kurdish terrorists in Turkey, is accused in  Azerbaijan of fraud,  said  the lawyer of Musayev.

Ibrahim Musayev said about the evidence available to him that Nakhchivan regularly sends to Turkey trucks with ammunition and arms for Kurdish terrorists and  about the murder of Turaj Zeynalov in the Ministry of national security of Nakhchivan, who was arrested  on suspicion of spying for Iran.

Relatives of a  31-year-old Turaj Zeynalov reported that he was arrested on 24 August 2011 on charges of treason,  and died four days later as a result of the torture suffered  in the Ministry of National Security of NAR.

 The Ministry admitted the fact of Zeynalov’s death, but denied the torture. According to the medical report, Zeynalov died of "pulmonary arterial thrombus ," but later the Ministry of National Security  (MNS) of Nakhchivan told media stating that Zeynalov died of cancer.

According  to Musayev, in the MNS of  Nakhchivan  he was ordered to compromise Zeynalov’s wife, which he did by joining her in a love affair. Thereafter, a young woman was forced by blackmail to say on camera that her husband had cancer and died from it. But some time later, the woman called  to the head of National Security Ministry, Veli Askerov, and said  that  the employee of the Ministry made her to say so, and now she will tell the truth  to  journalists and human rights defenders. Then Musayev, according to him, was ordered to kill the widow  of Zeynalov , but he refused and fled from Azerbaijan.

Previously he was ordered to discredit the family of the human rights defender Nasibov, because they also expose iniquity of the authorities of Nakhchivan. —06D--