On Friday, a group of physicians representing the medical establishments of the Prison Service Center conducted a forensic medical examination of the arrested prisoner human rights defender, Ilham Amiraslanov, in the Baku pre-trial prison.
Doctors confirmed the perforation of the eardrum in Amiraslanov’s ear, but noted that the wound is healing, and expressed the hope that the broken membrane will be restored soon.
On April 8, after the arrest, Amiraslanov complained of the rupture the membrane as a result of beatings by the police, but the doctors did not pay attention to it, and did not fix the injury. Only on July 19, the medical sanitary unit gave the official conclusion on perforating the membrane, which was counter to the conclusions of other structures of the forensic center and the Chief Medical Department of the Ministry of Justice.
For a long time Amiraslanov complained of pain in his ribs and internal organs, but a serious examination had not been done despite his appeal, and the appeal of his defenders to the Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General, the Ombudsman Office.
At the request of the OSCE Baku office, on July 19, he was visited by the head of the NGO "For Human Rights" Eynulla Fatullayev, who presented a report to this organization on the results of the conversation.
Prosecutor Office also obtained testimonies from Amiraslanov on the fact of torture in the Baku pre-trial prison.
A member of the "Kura" civil society, Amiraslanov, was arrested on June 8, four days after the meeting of a group of farmers with the Minister of Emergency Situations, Kemaladdin Heydarov and chief executive Nazim Ismaylov. At this meeting, the farmers expressed their dissatisfaction with the course of reconstruction after the floods of 2010. Immediately after the meeting he has been shadowed, and he was arrested on charges of possessing a pistol and ammunition. Later Amiraslanov admitted that under tortures he had made a false confession in the possession of a weapon.
Amiraslanov, along with other members of the “Kura” civil society, was actively fighting corruption and defending the rights of citizens in the implementation of programs to eliminate the consequences of floods in 2010, amounting half a billion manat.—0--
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