Civil Society Representatives Visit Families of Political Prisoners

The Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners Alliance and the Committee for Protection of Civil Society representatives visited the families of three more political prisoners on Thursday. They congratulated the families of Gorkhmaz Jamalov, Ilkin Rustamzadeh and Elvin Abdullayev on the occasion of Novruz.

Jamalov was sentenced for organizing a campaign against the detention of believers in 2013 to 8 years in prison on 9 December 2013 under the Criminal Code articles 167.2.2.1; 281.2; 283.2.3.

Rustamzadeh, an activist of the civil movement Free Youth, was sentenced on May 6, 2014 to 8 years in prison under articles 28 and 220.1 (preparation for the organization of mass disorder, accompanied with violence, pogroms, arson, destruction of property, use of firearms, explosives or explosive devices as well as armed resistance to representative of authority, or participation in such disorders)

Abdullayev, a member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party, was sentenced on June 3, 2015 to six years' imprisonment on bogus charges on Article 234.4.3 (drug trafficking on a large scale).

A day earlier, civil society activists visited three other families of political prisoners, Faraj and Saraj Kerimli, Nemat Panahli, and Mammad Ibrahim. -0--