The Sabail district court extended for another two months the arrest of the former head of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Cooperation Nijat Guliyev charged with illegal possession of weapons.
As the lawyer Elton Guliyev said, the decision was taken on October 1 on the brief submitted by the investigation.
Arrested on Aug. 7, Guliyev rejects the accusation.
Guliyev was the Minister in 1993-95. Later he went to Adjara, where he was an advisor at the president Aslan Abashidze, until his resignation in 2004. After that, he returned to Baku and was engaged in business in Azerbaijan and Turkey. He was not noticed in any political, social or other public activities.
In October 2005, Guliyev was arrested along with a group of high-ranking officials on charges of attempting to overthrow the government. However, two weeks later, he was released and was not attracted to criminal liability. -16/06D-
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Judoist Zelim Kotsoyev has brought Azerbaijan its second gold medal at the Olympic Games in Paris. He won the Games in the 100kg weight category, defeating Georgian representative Ilia Sulamanidze in the final.
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The condition of the arrested Fazil Gasimov, who has been on hunger strike for the 49th day in a medical facility of the Penitentiary Service for the 49th day, remains critical, his lawyer Rovshana Rahimova told Turan after visiting Gasimov on August 1.
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On August 1, the largest prisoner exchange in the history of relations between Moscow and Washington took place at Ankara airport: 24 people took part in it at once. The Russian side transfers 16 people to the American side (this group includes US citizens, dual citizens and Russians.) The Americans handed over 8 people to Russia (all of them are citizens of the Russian Federation).
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On September 1, 1,489 people applied to the district election commissions to nominate candidates for deputies in the early elections to the Milli Majlis. Of these, 481 candidates have already been registered, the head of this structure, Mazahir Panahov, said at today's meeting of the CEC. According to him, 958 of the nominated candidates are non-party, 531 have a party affiliation.
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