Three complaints to the ECHR on the case of Ilkin Rustamzade

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the near future will begin to communicate the complaint of the activist  of NIDA Movement Ilkin Rustamzade against  unlawful arrest in May 2014.  According to  the lawyer Nemat Karimli, Rustamzade is  accused of hooliganism, the investigation did not provide evidence of guilt. Thus, the investigation incriminated Rustamzade  of organizing dance flash mob Harlem Shake at the Baku Boulevard and placing a movie to YouTube. At the same time, in fact it was not injured.

Protection asks the ECHR  to recognize  the violation of the  rights of Rustamzade under the  Article 5 (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Earlier the  ECHR began communication on the complaint of  Rustamzade to administrative arrest in connection with the youth action in April 2013, on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the mass murder in the Oil Academy. The complaint also raises the question of a violation of Article 5 of the European Convention.

The third complaint concerns the judgment of conviction  of Rustamzade to  eight years in prison on charges of hooliganism, organizing mass disorders, illegal possession of explosives. This complaint prepared a lawyer Khalid Bagirov.

This collective complaint concerns the violation of the rights  of Rustamzade, as well as other  activists  convicted with him - Rashadat Akhundov, Zaur Gurbanli and Mamed Azizov on Articles 5 (right to liberty and security), 6 (right to a fair trial), 10 (freedom of expression ), 11 (freedom of assembly) and 18 (limitation on use of restrictions on rights) of the European Convention, Turan was told  by the lawyer Bagirov. In the coming days the complaint will be sent to the ECHR.

Rustamzade remains the last of the  eight NIDA activists convicted  on May 6, 2014. All the others were pardoned in different periods.  "Amnesty İnternational" recognized Rustamzade recognized as  “prisoner of conscience.”- 06D-