Prison service and lawyer deny information about the hospitalization of a blogger(UPDATED)
Baku/06.01.19/Turan: Mehman Huseynov has not been hospitalized in a medical institution, said his lawyer Fuad Agayev. "Today, on January 6, I contacted the investigator. He said that Mehman Huseynov was not hospitalized," said the lawyer.
The head of the public relations department of the Penitentiary Service, Mehman Sadigov, also denied the Azerbaijani service of Voice of America the information about the blogger"s hospitalization. He claims that Huseynov "takes food and water", and "has no health problems. "- 0-
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2019 January 06 (Sunday) 00:11:25
Mehman Huseynov's Hospitalization Reported
Baku / 01/06/19 / Turan: Late in the evening, the health conditions of the blogger Mehman Huseynov, who was on a hunger strike since December 26, deteriorated sharply in the Baku Pretrial Detention Center No. 1, and he was immediately sent to the prison hospital. This was announced by the journalist Natig Adilov living abroad, citing sources in the Prison Service.
Due to the late hours of the day it was not possible to get comments from the official bodies. -0-
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