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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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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