The hearing on the appeal Rufat Safarov

The Shirvan Court of Appeal  today began consideration of the complaint of   Rufat Safarov, the former investigator  of Zardob Prosecutor Office, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges of bribery. According to a lawyer Behruz Bayramov, at the trial the judge granted the defense motion allowing that  at the trial Safarov to sit next to his lawyer. The judge also granted the request to summon as a witness the head of department of culture and tourism  of Zardob region, who did not appear in the trial court. Safarov himself in his speech said that he  has been arrested by the order, and does not believe in the justice of the court. "Whatever the decision of the court, I am  with my people,"  Safarov said. The next  trial is scheduled for December 22.

* Former investigator Rufat Safarov was convicted in September 2016, and before that he was fired from the prosecutor's office for "misconduct." His father - a former activist of the ruling party, Eldar Sabiroglu, which has long been a member of parliament, and then the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense, after the dismissal began to criticize the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev for mediocrity, and then began an attack on Rufat Safarov. -03В06-