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Baku /12/17/2011/Turan: The press service of the Prosecutor General's Office provides no comments on the reports in some media outlets on Friday about the formation of special group to re-investigate the so-called "Terter case".
This scandalous case that resulted a huge resonance and public discontent, has caused serious criticism from international structures.
The Azerbaijani authorities have ignored the incident for a long time, however, the criticism of the victims, their families and human rights defenders demanding to punish the perpetrators and acquit the innocent victims is sounding louder and more often.
*On May 7, 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office, the State Security Service, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan reported on the detention of a group of military personnel and civilians for espionage in favor of the special services of Armenia.
The Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case under Article 274 (high treason) of the Criminal Code. The detainees were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. However, it soon became known that during the investigation at least 11 suspects were killed as a result of tortures. Later, the four killed were acquitted, and the investigators who fabricated charges against them were sentenced to various prison terms.-
**In June of this year, 24 PACE members took an initiative to investigate tortures in Azerbaijan in the context of the "Terter case" and appoint a rapporteur of the Assembly for this purpose.
An appropriate document № 1551 was published on June 25 on the PACE website. The initiator of the investigation was the Italian Senator Roberta Rampi.
The authors of the document linked the need for an investigation with the facts of large-scale tortures in the "Terter case", the victims of which were more than 200 servicemen, 11 of whom died.
Twenty-five people were convicted of high treason on the basis of information obtained during interrogations under tortures and sentenced from seven rto twenty years of imprisonment.-0-
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