Najafov, killed in Khachmaz, was previously acquitted by the court

Baku/30.08.18/Turan: Niyazi Najafov,killed on August 28 during a special operation by law enforcers in the Khachmaz region, accused of religious extremism and terrorism, , was previously convicted. He was released by the appellate court after the removal of part of the charges. A lawyer Fariz Namazli wrote on his facebook page, that in 2014 three people were arrested in Guba - Vafadar and Vafanur Mammadov, and their relative Niyazi Najafov were arrested.

They were accused of attempting to kidnap a person and storing weapons, and convicted to seven and eight years of imprisonment. Subsequently, the Sumgayit Court of Appeal acquitted them under the Article on kidnapping, reducing the sentence to three years imprisonment. Najafov was released in the spring of 2017.

According to relatives, Mamedov and Najafov was followed by the fact that they published an offensive status in facebook to the then head of the MNS, Eldar Mahmudov. "On January 2, 2014, Nizami Najafov published a photo of Eldar Mahmudov with an offensive status in facebook, and Vafanur Mammadov wrote his comment. On January 4, Nizami Najafov and Vafanur Mammadov were arrested. On January 7, Vafadar Mammadov was also arrested," said activist Aftandil Mammadov, a cousin of Vafadar and Vafanur Mammadov, who is in political emigration. Meanwhile, in social networks, a discussion has been held about the fact that Najafov became the sixth person killed by the siloviki after the Ganja events in providing "armed resistance."

After the attempt on the former head of Ganja, Elmar Veliyev on July 3 and the murder of two police officers in this city on July 10, 60 people were arrested, and six more were killed. The chairman of the National Council of Democratic Forces, Jamil Hasanli, questioned the legitimacy of the actions of the siloviki.

"Why did the special unit of the State Security Council not be able to disarm one of the terrorists and take it alive? The state should not treat a terrorist as a terrorist. Would not it be better to take him alive and get from him important information about the activities of the group of which he was a member? How did he determine that Nizami Najafov was a terrorist and was preparing a terrorist attack? Recently, it has become the norm to denounce the citizens of the country, exposing them to extremists, terrorists, Islamists. Nizami Najafov is already the sixth citizen of Azerbaijan, killed in recent weeks by the bodies of the State Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. To destroy people on unproven assumptions, representing them as extremists and terrorists - is unconstitutional and illegal," Hasanli writes. Attempts of Turan to receive a comment in these law enforcement agencies did not give results. -03B06--