The consideration of the complaint on "Nardaran case-1" postponed

Baku / 08.06.17 / Turan: Appointed to the Baku Appeals Court today, the consideration of the complaint of the accused on the "Nardaran case-1" scheduledfor today in the Baku Appeal Court did not take place. At the beginning of the trial lawyers brought to the attention of the court that they and their clients had not had time to familiarize with the minutes of the trials at Baku Serious Crimes Court.

The lawyer Yalchin Imanov told Turan, that the protocols were presented to the defenders only at the beginning of May, and the case was immediately sent to the court of appeal.

The judge granted the request for the return of the case to the court of first instance for reviewing the protocols. The figurants of this case are the leader of the Movement "Muslim Unity" Tale Bagirzade, 16 other believers, as well as the deputy chairman of the People's Front Party Fuad Gahramanli.

They were arrested in November-December 2015 in Nardaran, and sentenced for long periods on charges of preparing forcible change of the state system, illegal storage of weapons and other serious crimes.

In the court of first instance, these charges, according to the monitoring of human rights organizations, were not confirmed. The defendants claimed that they gave confessions under torture.

International organizations condemned the unfair trial. Fuad Gahramanli is recognized as a "prisoner of conscience", he is not involved in the events in Nardaran at all.-03C06--