Baku/26.06.23/Turan: Baku Court of Appeal on 25 June did not satisfy the complaints of activist Giyas Ibragimov against the decision to impose a 30-day administrative detention and the subsequent extension of the punishment for another two days.
The trials were held despite the fact that Ibragimov lost consciousness in the courthouse as a result of a dry hunger strike declared back on 22 June.
"The trials were postponed because Giyas lost consciousness. Only after the intervention of the ambulance medics, he regained consciousness. However, this notwithstanding, he had difficulty answering the judges' questions during the trials," said lawyer Elchin Sadygov.
According to him, the decisions to arrest him were upheld.
Ibragimov's mother Shura Amiraslanova also deteriorated in the court building.
"Giyas was treated by two ambulance teams for an hour.
Nevertheless, in court he was in a convulsive state, unable to speak because of that", Amiraslanova said.
After the trial she went to the detention centre for persons arrested under an administrative procedure, but there she was not allowed to meet her son, having been offered to come on June 26.
Giyas Ibragimov was detained on the afternoon of June 22, when persons in plain clothes came to his home and demanded that the activist remove the critical post he had published on social media about the police and the authorities due to the violent dispersal of the June 20 protest action in the village of Seyudlu.
On the same day, the court sentenced him to one month's arrest under only one of the imputed articles - Article 535.1 (failure to obey the police) of the Code of Administrative Offences.
On 24 June the court also found him guilty under Article 388-1.1 ("violation of the requirements of the legislation on the posting of information prohibited for distribution") of the Code of Administrative Offences.
It might be recalled that Ibragimov has been arrested before. In 2016, for example, he was arrested after writing political slogans on the pedestal of a monument to Heydar Aliyev together with the late Bayram Mammadov. Both young men were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, but were pardoned in 2019. -В06-
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