The Azerbaijani Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the journalist Parviz Hashimli to Baku Appeal Court’s decision dismissing a partial re-trial investigation of his case. Turan was told by the lawyer Elchin Sadigov.
* An employee of the paper Bizim Yol, Parviz Hashimli was arrested by DHS on September 17, 2013. On May 15 the Baku Court of Grave Crimes found him guilty of illegal purchase, possession and smuggling of arms and ammunition and sentenced him to 8 years of imprisonment.
Human rights defenders recognize Hashimli as political prisoner. -16 / 06D-
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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