Police prevented believers from holding a protest action

Baku / 09.08.17 / Turan: The police prevented a group of believers from holding a protest action against torture of the activist of the Movement "Muslim Unity" Abbas Huseynov in the Gobustan prison. Police officers and people in plain clothes in front of the Penitentiary Service dispersed the protesters and pushed journalists out. Huseynov"s sister, Yasemen, told reporters that her relatives last spoke on the phone on July 17. After the meeting of the Court of Appeal on July 20, there was no connection with him. Native worried about his health.

Sister said that even during the preliminary investigation Huseynov was subjected to severe torture in the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he had cones on his head. "Apparently they did not think so, and they continue to torture Abbas in prison," she said. Earlier, lawyer Yalchin Imanov confirmed that Huseynov was put in a punishment cell in Gobustan prison and tortured.

According to the lawyer, he was beaten with a truncheon, tied up in the hot weather under the sun to an iron pillar in the courtyard of the prison, two days kept with his hands and feet tied to the cot in the punishment cell.

Abbas Huseynov was arrested during a special operation in Nardaran in November 2015. In January 2017, the court sentenced him to 20 years in prison on charges of committing grave crimes - an attempt to change the constitutional order, terrorism, murder, etc.-35B-