Baku / 08.05.18 / Turan: On May 8, the Baku Court for Grave Crimes sentenced the editor of the newspaper Gundelik Baky, Gabil Veliyev, to four years in prison. The prosecutor had offered to sentence him to 7.5 years.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gundelik Baky, Gabil Veliyev, was arrested in December 2016 on suspicion of extortion by threats, carrying out operational search activities without authorization.
Note that the Press Council included Gundelik Baky in the list of racketeer media, which violate the law and are engaged in extortion. -06D--
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Muslim Unity Movement (MU) activist Akhsan Nuruzade has been detained in Azerbaijan 20 days after being released from prison. Nuruzade was detained in the late afternoon of October 26 when he was meeting his daughter who was returning from classes at Khazar University in Baku, the MU reported.
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The health condition of economist Fazil Gasimov, who is on a hunger strike for the 136th day in prison, remains grave.
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On Sunday, October 27, rain is expected in Baku and on the Absheron Peninsula, with locally intense rainfall during the night in some areas of the peninsula, along with thunderstorms. In the morning, the rain will gradually cease, and variable cloudiness is expected during the day, with a northwestern wind. The air temperature will range from +8 to +11°C at night and from +12 to +15°C during the day, according to the National Hydrometeorological Service.
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On the evening of October 25, a fire broke out at the large "Astoria" hotel complex located in the Nizami district of the capital. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, several firefighting teams were deployed to extinguish the fire. After several hours, the fire was localized and extinguished.
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