The Lankaran Court of Grave Crimes on January 13 held a preparatory meeting on the case of the activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) Murad Adilov accused of drug trafficking.
During the meeting, the lawyer Yalcin Imanov petitioned to invalidate the content of the activist's detention. As Imanov told Turan, the term of Adilov's preventive arrest expired two days ago and then his detention was illegal.
The defense also petitioned for termination of the criminal proceedings in the absence of legally sound evidence against Adilov and examination of the defense witnesses. However, the judge, satisfying only the latest petition, scheduled the next hearing for January 22.
Murad Adilov was arrested in the Sabirabad region on August 11. He is the brother of an employee of the newspaper Azadlig and the press secretary of the leader of the Popular Front Party Natig Adilov. Because of persecution and pressure, N. Adilov was forced to leave Azerbaijan after his brother's arrest. -06D--
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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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