Today Nariman District Court of Baku, chaired by Abbas Aliyev, convicted of believers charged with resisting the police and public order offenses. They were arrested due to the protest action on October 5, 2012 outside the Ministry of Education, where several hundred Islamists demanded to abolish the ban on headscarves in schools.
The court found eight people guilty and sentenced: Dawud Kerimov, Telman Shiraliev to six years in prison, Tarlan Agadadashev, Anara Gasymly, Ilham Hatamov and Rovsan Allakhverdiev – to 5.5 years of imprisonment, Murad Guliyev and Ceyhun Guliyev – to 5 years.
According to the lawyer Mansum Bayramov, most of the defendants have not pleaded guilty. Some of them partially admitted guilt. Lawyers and relatives said the sentence was ordered, and they intend in the coming days to hold a press conference.
On these events 33 have been arrested. Some of them also appeared in court, others are still under investigation.—16D06—
Politics
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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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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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