Preparatory session of the court on the case of Giyas Ibrahimov and his father

Baku/10.31.17/Turan: A preparatory meeting in the case of the convict earlier

youth activist Giyas Ibrahimov and his father Hasan Ibrahimov began today Yasamal district court of Baku under the chairmanship Huseyn Safarov. They both are charged under Article 289.2 (disrespect for the judge) of the Criminal Code.

The criminal case was initiated in connection with the incident of June 5 this year in the Baku Court of Appeal. Giyas Ibrahimov, during the state prosecutor's speech, repeatedly pointed to Judge Vugar Mammadov with his hands that he could not hear anything while in a glass cage. However, the judge did not attach any importance to this. Giyas Mammadov, in protest, tore off the microphone that was in the cage. Judicial warders entered the cage and put Ibrahimov in handcuffs. This was done with the use of violence and there were traces of the defendant's blood on the bench.

The activist's father, Hasan Ibrahimov, who was in the hall, protested and urged the judge to stop it, exclaiming that there would come a day when this would happen to his children.

Today, at the preparatory meeting, lawyer Elchin Sadigov petitioned the release of Giyas Ibrahimov from a glass cage and allowed him to sit next to a lawyer, to stop criminal proceedings, to recognize the violation of the presumption of innocence.

The lawyer said, in the Baku Court of Appeal in the case of Ibrahimov he submitted 23 petitions. "Giyas Ibrahimov did not hear what the prosecutor and the judge say. He gestured with his hands that he could not hear anything, but it was ignored.

In the courtroom he was handcuffed. I filed 23 petitions, all of them were rejected. In this sense, the protests of Ibrahimov and his father cannot be regarded as not respect for the court. This is a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention, decisions of the plenums of the Supreme Court. Therefore, the criminal case must be terminated on justifiable grounds," said the lawyer.

Salygov also pointed to the inadmissibility of considering the case in Yasamal court, since he is in jurisdiction, that is, subordination of the Baku Court of Appeal, three judges of which are complainants against the accused.

Prosecutor Vusal Abdullayev spoke against the petitions, and the judge left them not considered. Then the judge allegedly allowed Ibrahimov to sit next to the lawyer, but when the court retired to the meeting, he was again returned to the glass cage. Then the state agent asked for time to prepare for the speech and the hearing was postponed to 15:00 on November 7.

* On May 10, 2016, the members of the NIDA Movement Giyas Ibrahimov and Bayram Mammadov were arrested after writing political slogans on the monument to Heydar Aliyev. However, they were accused of a crime connected with drug trafficking and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.

Amnesty International has declared both "prisoners of conscience" because it believes that the accusation against them is fabricated. Representatives of the authorities do not consider them political prisoners, stating that they are punished "for a specific criminal act." - 03B06--