The life prisoner Abbasov Arif Alagif Oglu has committed suicide in the Gobustan jail. According to the Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan, he held a lifelong regime for 9 months. He recently complained of bad relations with the administration and the frequent changes of the cells.
Coming for a walk on September 6, he cut his neck with a sharp object. Although Abbasov was taken to the central prison hospital, he died the next day.
Unofficial sources attributed the prisoner’s problems to the fact that he was a brother of an Abbas – a criminal authority and a former prisoner of the Gobustan prison.
The Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan underlines the particular need of psychological help to life prisoners, involving psychologists, when they are placed in the Gobustan prison.
According to Turan, more than 260 life-sentenced prisoners are kept in the jail of Gobustan. More than 70-ty life prisoners have died there. -0-
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