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Baku/12.07.23/Turan: In the coming days, the defense will appeal to the Khatai District Court with a petition for the release of public activist Bakhtiar Hajiyev on property bail. This preventive measure provides for the transfer of the accused under house arrest. Lawyer Javad Javadov told Turan about this after a meeting with Hajiyev in the Baku pre-trial detention center-1.

The defense will file an additional complaint in connection with the new charges brought against Hajiyev to the European Court of Human Rights. The lawyer said that Hajiyev remains cheerful and now feels well.

**Bakhtiar Hajiyev was arrested on December 9 last year on charges of hooliganism and contempt of court. On the same day, the Khatai District Court sentenced him to 1 month and 20 days in prison.

On January 9, 2023, the Court of Appeal refused his release and he resumed his hunger strike. On January 21, the court extended the term of his arrest for a month, and on February 23 – for another two months - on April 28.

February 28 - on the 51st day of the hunger strike, Hajiyev stopped his hunger strike.

Representatives of the US State Department, the US Senate, the European Union, the Council of Europe and a number of international NGOs have repeatedly demanded Hajiyev's release from prison.

On June 16, he was charged with new charges of illegal entrepreneurship, legalization of proceeds from crime, falsification of documents and smuggling.

The new charges brought against Azerbaijani activist Bakhtiar Hajiyev are related to receiving grants from a European human rights organization, the Institute for Freedom and Security of Reporters said. The organization expressed fears that Hajiyev's case would become a precedent, after which a wave of persecution of other activists and human rights defenders on similar charges could begin. ---16B06---

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