OSCE representatives visit Amiraslanov
On July 30 representatives of the OSCE Office in Baku visited in pre-trial detention , an arrested human rights defender, Ilham Amiraslanov.
Meeting with Amiraslanov was in his cell in the presence of the head of the pre-trial detention.
OSCE representatives were interested in health, conditions in cell, and attitudes to him by the staff of jail.
Amiraslanov reported that he had not received adequate medical care of wounds sustained during the beating after he was arrested on April 8 by the management staff to combat organized crime.
He had damaged ribs, internal organs, ruptured eardrum of the ear, what was documented by physicians of the Prison Service and Forensic Center.
For a long time Amiraslanov complained of pain in his ribs and internal organs, but a serious examination had not been done despite his appeal, and the appeal of his defenders to the Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General, the Ombudsman Office.
At the request of the OSCE Baku office, on July 19, he was visited by the head of the NGO "For Human Rights" Eynulla Fatullayev, who presented a report to this organization on the results of the conversation.
A member of the "Kura" civil society, Amiraslanov, was arrested on June 8, four days after the meeting of a group of farmers with the Minister of Emergency Situations, Kemaladdin Heydarov and chief executive Nazim Ismaylov. At this meeting, the farmers expressed their dissatisfaction with the course of reconstruction after the floods of 2010. Immediately after the meeting he has been shadowed, and he was arrested on charges of possessing a pistol and ammunition. Later Amiraslanov admitted that under tortures he had made a false confession in the possession of a weapon.
Amiraslanov, along with other members of the “Kura” civil society, was actively fighting corruption and defending the rights of citizens in the implementation of programs to eliminate the consequences of floods in 2010, amounting half a billion manat.—0—
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