Niyaməddin Əhmədov
Baku/12.10.21/Turan: Reports of the attempted suicide of the PFPA activist Niyameddin Ahmedov were not confirmed, said his lawyer Zibeyda Sadigova. “I have just left the meeting with Niyameddin. The information about the attempted suicide is not true. Despite his poor health, he continues his hunger strike. I again conveyed to Niyameddin the request of the party leadership and parents to end the hunger strike. Tomorrow he will make a decision,” said the lawyer. Tomorrow Sadigova intends to visit Ahmedov in the pre-trial detention center again.-06D-
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2021 October 12 (Tuesday) 13:39:14
Niyameddin Akhmedov attempted suicide – human rights activist
Baku/12.10.21/Turan: Activist of the Party of People's Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA) kept in the Baku pre-trial detention center N1 Niyameddin Akhmedov attempted suicide. Rufat Safarov, executive director of the public association "Line of Protection", wrote about this on his Facebook page.
"Niyameddin Akhmedov attempted suicide, it was prevented. Niyameddin's condition is very serious," Safarov said having in mind a prisoner kept in the same building with Akhmedov.
According to the same source, a round-the-clock surveillance post is installed in front of Akhmedov's cell.
It should be recalled that Niyameddin Akhmedov is a bodyguard on a voluntary basis of the leader of the Party of People's Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA) Ali Kerimli.
Note that he was detained on April 16, 2020 on charges of violating the quarantine regime and resisting the police, and arrested for 30 days.
Later on, he was charged with financing terrorism, pointing to receiving money from abroad as the reason.
While under arrest, Akhmedov was tortured in order to get evidence against the Party leader. However, he did not testify.
On October 8, the court sentenced him to 13 years of imprisonment.
Since September 22 when the prosecutor proposed to convict him, Akhmedov has been on a hunger strike.
Note that human rights activists recognized Akhmedov as a political prisoner.
The defense will appeal against the decision of the court of first instance. -02D-
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