Jahangir Gadzhiev
The former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), Jahangir Gadzhiev, who is serving his sentence at Colony No. 13 is not receiving effective medical treatment despite his poor health, his lawyer, Fahraddin Mehdiyev, told Turan. According to Mehdiyev, Hajiyev suffers from an aortic aneurysm, hypoxia (insufficient oxygen supply to the brain), and his left arm has gone numb.
Despite these conditions, Hajiyev has not been transferred to either the penitentiary service hospital or even the colony's medical unit, the lawyer noted. Moreover, Hajiyev is not being provided with the results of medical tests that are conducted at the colony, Mehdiyev continued. The former banker is also being denied medical examination and treatment at his own expense.
"We have once again appealed to the main medical department of the Ministry of Justice, but 15 days have passed and there is still no response," said the lawyer.
Jahangir Hajiyev, the former chairman of the board of OJSC IBA, was arrested in December 2015. In October 2016, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Later, his sentence was extended by another 1.5 years.
Hajiyev is accused of embezzling and misappropriating up to 4 billion manats. However, his lawyers have stated that these accusations are not supported by credible evidence.
Politics
-
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
-
On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
-
The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
-
Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
Leave a review