Another person involved in the "Terter case" was acquitted
Baku/31.05.23/Turan: On May 31, the Ganja Court of Appeal acquitted Sadayil Shukurov, who was arrested in January 2018 and sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges of treason, in the so-called "Terter case".
This was reported to Turan by the head of the Baku Human Rights Club Rasul Jafarov.
According to him, although Shukurov was arrested later than the main group of defendants in the Terter case by the same charges and the investigation was carried out with the same gross violations.
Shukurov was a long-term serviceman.
He was recognized by human rights activists as a political prisoner.
*After the April 2016 battles in Azerbaijan, tens of azerbaijani militens were arrested and involved in the investigation called the "Terter case". The Prosecutor General's Office, the State Security Service, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in a joint statement motivated the arrests by the involvement of suspects in espionage in favor of Armenia.
The public learned about the mass torture of detainees in May-June 2017 only in 2019. According to human rights activists, more than 100 soldiers and officers were tortured, 25 were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, at least nine people died from torture.
After numerous protests by the relatives of the victims and the demands of human rights activists, the authorities were forced to resume the investigation.
In December 2022, 19 convicts in the "Terter case" were released. 10 of them were acquitted, the rest of the cases were dismissed without an acquittal. Another 5 people were pardoned in May this year.
There are still several people in prisons in the "Terter case" who have committed themselves under torture. There may be several hundred victims of torture in total.
Several officiers, including one general, were arrested and imprisoned for these crimes. However, the top leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the Military Prosecutor's Office were not involved.---06B---
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