The Baku Court of Grave Crimes today issued a sentence on the member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party Elvin Abdullayev. The court found him guilty of drug possession and deprived him of liberty for 6 years.
Recall that Abdullayev, who is Azerbaijan Pedagogical University’s student, was arrested after the exam on January 8, 2015. Police said that Abdullayev was allegedly seized 3 grams of heroin, after which he was charged under Article 234.4.3 (drug trafficking on a large scale).
However, the student said that the drugs were planted. The reason was his criticism of the authorities and appeals to fellow students not to be afraid to express their opinions. Following the statements, Abdullayev was called by the Pro-rector and warned about the inadmissibility of such conduct. However, the student was not afraid of threats.
After his arrest, investigators have long tried to break Elvin and force him to address the accusation against the leadership of PFPA, but Elvin was not broken, his mother told Turan. According to her, Elvin has repeatedly been put in solitary confinement as punishment.
During the investigation Abdullayev’s guilt has not been proven. The Youth Committee of PFPA believes that the young man is persecuted for political reasons. In addition to active participation in the Youth Committee of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, he also published sharply critical articles about the authorities on Facebook. Abdullayev became the eighth activist of PFPA thrown behind bars.
The defense plans to appeal the verdict. -03B-
Politics
-
The crash of our plane in Aktau raises several questions that demand answers: 1. Many of the victims of this tragedy were people who previously traveled to the North Caucasus by train or car. These victims might not have existed if Azerbaijan hadn’t kept its land borders closed for several years.
-
NATO expressed condolences regarding the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Alliance's spokesperson, Farah Dalallah, said on her social media account.
-
On December 26, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
-
On December 26, the British Embassy in Baku lowered its flag in mourning for the victims of the AZAL plane crash in Aktau. "In connection with the Day of Mourning in Azerbaijan, the British Embassy in Baku has lowered the national flag in memory of the victims of the plane crash," reads the post on the embassy's social media account on platform X.
Leave a review