Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into Gulmira Aslanova's complaint

Baku/11.04.22/Turan: Gulmira Aslanova, the wife of imprisoned Polad Aslanov, was invited to the Nizami district prosecutor's office on April 9.

"I informed in detail about the beating of my husband by a cellmate. I demanded to initiate criminal proceedings, and the investigator promised to investigate," Aslanova wrote on her Facebook page.

She believes that the penitentiary service is directly involved in the provocation against her husband, because the man who beat her husband "cooperates" with the prison administration.

According to her, the prison authorities limited themselves to the fact that the prisoner who hit her husband after leaving the punishment cell was placed in another cell.

However, she believes that the law enforcement authorities should take effective measures to bring the prisoner to justice and transfer him to another institution.

G.Aslanova also reported that the prisoner Iskender Huseynov who stood up for her husband was put in the punishment cell for seven days.

Last week G.Aslanova held two protests - in front of the penitentiary service and the Presidential Administration, demanding to punish the prisoner who beat up her husband and ensure the safety of the journalist.

She believes that her husband is under pressure in order to make him write a pardon petition and stop fighting for his rights and publicizing the negative phenomena in the colony.

Recall that the founder and head of the website xeberman.com Polad Aslanov was arrested in June 2019 on charges of treason and sentenced to 16 years of imprisonment. Human rights activists recognized him as a political prisoner. On February 24, the Supreme Court reduced his sentence to 13 years of imprisonment. - 06B21-