The prosecutor"s office clarifies the diagnosis

General Prosecutor  Office denies that the information that  the  doctor of the Prison Service confirmed the rupture of the eardrum  of  Ilham Amiraslanov, a  human rights activist as a result of his beating by police.

According to the  press service of the General Prosecutor,  on July 11 a rapture of the eardrum membrane has a non-traumatic nature, and is the result of chronic disease. 

The report states that the July 11 the clinic of the Penitentiary Service recorded a " point-form dry perforation of the tympanic membrane of the left ear" as a result of chronic non-traumatic origin formed in childhood until June 8, 2012.

But in a medical report dated 11.07.12 (№ 17/38-5329), which has the  Turan agency, literally, says only this: There is a "dry perforation of the tympanic membrane of the left ear." And says  nothing more about the origin of the perforation, which indicates the Prosecutor Office.

Khalil, brother  of Amiraslanov, told Turan that Ilham  has never endured the disease ear and never complained of pain in the ear, prior to his arrest on June 8.

Amiraslanov was arrested on June 8,  four days after the meeting with the  Minister of Emergency Situations, Kamaleddin Heydarov, on  resolution of the problems of flood victims in 2010.

The reason for arrest allegedly became arm found in the house  of Amiraslanov. After the arrest of a human rights activist,  he was beaten and forced to confess. However,  later he was forced to do  say it under torture.

Amiraslanov is one of the  activists of the “Kura” civil society, which protects the rights of victims of the flood victims, and fights against corruption. -16D-