On 6 November, the Supreme Court completed consideration of the appeal of the head of the website demokratik.az Osman Narimanoglu (Rzayev) against the sentence of imprisonment for 6.5 years on charges of extortion.
His wife Arzu Rzayeva told 'Turan' that the Supreme Court did not satisfy the appeal and left the verdict unchanged.
*Osman Narimanoglu was arrested on 5 July 2022 on extortion charges. After his arrest, he claimed that the charges against him were false and that he had been slandered by officials of the Land Reclamation Department, as well as doctors of Geranboy and Geygel regions, about whose corruption the website had published materials.
On 25 January 2024, the court sentenced him to 6.5 years of imprisonment, and 17 May the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict. Human rights activists recognised Osman Narimanoglu as a political prisoner.
Politics
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On January 22, the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Jeyhun Bayramov, and the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, David Lammy, held a telephone conversation.
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The court records from the trial of Teymur Kerimov, the head of the YouTube channel Kanal-11, were falsified, the declaration distributed by Kerimov's colleagues. “The court documents are distorted. They misrepresented the testimony of citizens. For instance, the victim Leila Almaszadeh stated in court that she had no complaints against me. In court, she said, “Teymur did not ask me for money and did not receive any money from me.” However, the court protocol states that she is complaining about me and demands the removal of illegally recorded videos,” writes Kerimov.
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As a result of measures taken by the Nizami, Garadag, and Binagadi district prosecutors’ offices in Baku, the funds obtained by several agricultural product exporters have been returned to the country.
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Presidents of Azerbaijan and Ukraine met at the Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January.
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