New threat of the arrest the journalist Elchin Hasanov

 There is a threat of the arrest of  the journalist Elchin Hasanov in connection with an appeal of the public prosecutor to the Supreme Court. The reason for criminal proceedings was an incident between Hasanov and head of the agency "Asia" Jafar Jafarov  in February 2015.  On June 1, the court sentenced him to one year of corrective labor.

The prosecutor's office appealed the verdict, demanding to reclassify charge on heavier - 221.3 (hooliganism with the use of bladed weapons) of the Criminal Code, and to toughen punishment to 3.5 years in prison.

However, the Court of Appeal did not toughen the punishment, and upheld the verdict

the Court of First Instance. Four  months later the prosecutor's office filed a cassation appeal on the decision. "Today I received a letter from the Supreme Court that on 24 November  the prosecutor Rizwan Shammamedov filed an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal and requires stricter punishment. The hearing, chaired by Imran Hajibayov has been  appointed   to the Supreme Court on January 17," said the reporter.

At the same time, the journalist received a warning from the Sumgait Court Bailiffs  Department that for default judgment on the forced labor he faces from 4 months to 1 year imprisonment. Hasanov explained that he does not have a paid work to transfer  20% of revenue to the  account of the execution of punishment. In the management of employment, he was offered to work as a janitor with a salary of 125 manats. The journalist said he was ready to serve the penalty for non-execution of the sentence. "But obviously,  they want to punish  me more severely, and that is why the cassation appeal was filed."

* Hasanov is the deputy editor of the Sumgait Internet newspaper "Yukselish Namine» (yukselis.info). In addition, he is a member of the Supreme Majlis of PFPA and deputy head of the NGO "Legal Education of Sumgait Youth",  and an activist of the Committee to protect civil society. Start of a  lawsuit against Hasanov coincided with his publications on the topic of corruption and embezzlement in  the army.-06B--