Khadija Ismayilova demands explanation from the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court

On June 6 an investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova  sent electronic requests to the Ministry of Justice and the judge of the Supreme Court Ali Seyfaliyev in connection with the verdict in her case.  On  May 25, the Supreme Court refused the sentence of deprivation of her liberty for 7.5 years, replacing it with a suspended sentence for a 3.5 year-term, with a probation period of 5 years.

The journalist contested this decision and asks the Ministry of Justice:  have there been any cases in the jurisprudence  when a trial period exceeds the period of suspended sentence? If there were such cases, then, Ismayilova requested to inform her.  Khadija asked  the  judge Seyfalieva: why until now the court's decision in her case  have not been  exposed on the site of the Supreme Court ?

"The decision has not been sent to me.  The statement submitted  by the jail  does not   contain any obligations imposed on me in connection with a suspended sentence. Please send a copy of the decision, place it on the Internet, and explain  me the obligation on probation," says Ismayilova.

According to the lawyer Asabali Mustfayev,  in  practice the test period should be shorter  than a sentence. The lawyer Yalcin Imanov also said he did not know when the trial period exceeded the period of probation. "There is no logic at all, it turns out that the sentence has expired, and the trial is still ongoing,"  he said.

The lawyer believes that the decision may be motivated by the desire, as long as possible to limit the freedom of Ismayilova.  The trial period is intended to limit the rights, including a ban on travel abroad. In addition, the convicted person is obliged to periodically register in bailiffs, inform and coordinate the change of residence. -06D-