Giyas Ibragimov's arrest term increased

Baku/24.06.23/Turan: Today Nizami district court increased the administrative detention period for youth activist Giyas Ibragimov to 32 days.

His lawyer Elchin Sadygov informed Turan about it.

According to him, it turned out that on June 22 the court sentenced him to one month's detention only under one of the imputed articles - Article 535.1 (failure to obey the police) of the Code of Administrative Offences. 

Today the court also found him guilty under Article 388-1.1 ("violation of legal requirements for posting information prohibited for dissemination") of the Code of Administrative Offences.

According to Sadygov, the defence has already filed an appeal against the arrest.

The lawyer says that Ibragimov has been on a dry hunger strike for the second day in protest against the illegal arrest and ill-treatment in the administrative detention facility.

As a reminder, Ibragimov was detained on the afternoon of June 22 when persons in plain clothes came to his home to demand that the activist delete a post he had published on social media criticizing the police and the authorities for the violent dispersal of the June 20 protest in the village of Seyudlu.

Note that Ibragimov has been arrested once. Thus, in 2016 he was arrested after jointly, with the late Bayram Mammadov, writing political slogans on the pedestal of the monument to Heydar Aliyev. Both young men were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, but were pardoned in 2019. -В06-