Court of Appeal Releases Lamia Guliyeva

The Baku Court of Appeals on Friday held a trial of Lamia Guliyeva, who was reconvicted in prison and gave birth to a child there.

In 2003 Lamia Guliyeva was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of the son of the former chief executive of the Shamkir region Aslan Aslanov. The real term ended in 2013. However, in 2012 there was a new sentence - imprisonment for 5 years and 6 months under Article 317.2 (violation of the order of penal institutions).

Thus, the general term for Guliyeva was 15.5 years.

Consideration of the appeal was held on the protest of the prosecutor's office against "excessively severe punishment" for Guliyeva. However, in the past, it was the prosecutor's office that initiated a re-sentence for Guliyeva, when she was in prison.

Today the Court of Appeal reduced her sentence with the first sentence and released her in the courtroom.

Guliyeva appeared in the public spotlight after it was reported about her rape in prison, after which she gave birth to a child. In the media sounded the assumption that the rape was revenge of Aslan Aslanov, the father of Ruslan Aslanov, who in 2003 raped Guliyeva and was killed for it.

Law enforcement authorities tried to deny and conceal the birth of a child and rejected the possibility of rape in custody. In this they were actively helped by so-called journalists and human rights activists. At the same time, no one could explain how a single woman could give birth in isolation. However, one of the executors of instructions from above has calculated that there has been artificial insemination between two prisons.

However, this nonsense was denied by Guliyeva herself, saying that she got pregnant in the usual way. -03S06-