Ministry of Internal Affairs and Prosecutor’s Office Refute Intentional Run-in on O. Gyulalyev

Baku / 28.12.19/ Turan: The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office in a joint statement denied allegations of the deliberate run-in on the human rights activist Ogtay Gyulalyev in the center of Baku on October 29.

The report notes that the investigation did not confirm the intentionality of the collision.

The investigation established that the taxi driver Kenan Abdullayev, who had committed the accident, regularly traveled in this direction to pick up his neighbor’s child from training courses at 5:30 p.m.

Records from the Safe City video surveillance cameras and data from mobile operators showed that two hours before the accident, the trajectories of Abdullayev and Gyulalyev did not coincide. No facts of surveillance for Gyulalyev by the driver were revealed.

Kenan Abdullayev, a resident of Mingachevir, has been transporting passengers to Baku since 2019. He was not convicted and had no personal affection for Gyulalyev.

It is also not established that someone transmitted information about Gyulalyev’s movement by phone or the Internet to the driver.

Investigation of other circumstances, including the provision of medical assistance to Gyulalyev, continues, the report says. —06D-