Relatives of Poladova Safa and Arif Kazimov who serve their life sentence in Gobustan prison demand their release.
At today’s press conference, the Director of the Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety (IRFS) Rasul Jafarov, said that a new appeal to President Ilham Aliyev with request to pardon these two convicted who have been in jail for more than 17 years.
According to him, Poladov and Kazimov been included in the very first list of the CE on political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The State Department, international organizations, those being sentenced and their parents also repeatedly appealed to the President to call for mercy on them.
At the same time, according to Jafarov, there is an appeal of the convicted to the European Court for Human Rights.
Alishir Ahad , a member of the Committee to protect the rights of Kazimov and Poladov, they were convicted in connection with the rebellion of OPON in March 1995. Poladov and Kazimov and still do not consider them guilty.
On March 13, 1995 the OPON subdivision in Gazakh region attacked on the local police. After that it was decided to disband the riot police.
OPON members gathered in Baku at their base in the village of "Eight Kilometer", and refused to obey the orders of the dissolution, and demanded his resignation.
On the night of March 17, the army units loyal to authorities was sent against the members of the OPON. Despite raising the white flag, those who were in the base were shot.
Among those killed was the OPON commander, Rovshan Javadov, his brother Mahir Javadov managed to escape, and now he is in exile in Austria.
Dozens of people were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms on the March events. later, most of them were pardoned. Currently, there are 19 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment on the events of March 1995, the attempts of coup d'etat of 1994, and other similar cases the mid-1990s. They are recognized by human rights defenders as political prisoners. -16C06-
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