Ikram Rahimov intends to starve to the end
Baku / 09.24.19 / Turan: The journalist Ikram Rahimov, detained in the Baku pre-trial detention center-1, addressed the local and international community in connection with his hunger strike.
"The Baku Court of Appeal, reducing my sentence to 3 years in prison, committed another lawlessness, fulfilling the will of those who ordered my arrest.
At the last court hearing on September 18, I stated that I would begin a hunger strike, which I continue to this day," Rahimov said in a statement transmitted to the media by his family members.
Rahimov claims that the authorities of Azerbaijan, including Assistant to the Head of State Ali Hasanov, will be responsible for his death.
Rahimov notes that his statement is addressed to all the media - local and abroad, international organizations, embassies of the EU countries, the US embassy, human rights organizations. "I ask you to carefully monitor what is happening, to raise your voice against injustice," he writes.
However, the Prison Service denied the information about the hunger strike of Rahimov. "There has been no official appeal from Ikram Rahimov on holding a hunger strike," said the representative of the public relations department of the Prison Service.
** The editor of the site realliq.info Ikram Rahimov was detained on October 26, 2018. On June 12, the court sentenced him to 5.5 years in prison. In protest, Rahimov began a hunger strike in August, which he stopped on the 30th day - September 5.
On September 18, the Court of Appeal confirmed Rahimov"s guilt of extortion by threats, applying Article 62 of the Criminal Code (imposing a lesser punishment prescribed by law), reduced the term of imprisonment from 5.5 years to 3 years. -D06-
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