Trial on the Ismayilli events (UPDATED)

On 21 January in Sheki Court at the trial  in the case of Ismayilli events  gave  testimonies a chief of police  Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the  Ismayilli  police, Nijat Aliyev. He said  active organizers of the riots were the leader of REAL Ilgar Mamedov, deputy chairman of the party "Musavat", Tofig Yagublu, and locals Elshan Ismayıllı , Vasif Ibragimov, and Shukran Mohbalyev.

The policeman claimed that he saw  on 24 January  at about 16:00  how  Mamedov and Yagublu incited locals to riot.

Witness gave confused testimony . On the one hand , he said that within an hour from 16:00 to 17:00   he was watching Mammadov  and Yagublu,  and  then he said that  he went to the department  to write a protocol against Yagublu, and when he  came back an hour later Yagublu was still there.

The witness could not provide an explanation for  his contradictory testimonies.

The  trial will continue on January 22. -0- 

 
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2014 January 21 (Tuesday) 13:44:19

Today in Sheki Court the trial of the Ismayilli events continued.

By 13.00 testimonies were heard from 21 witnesses and they all said they had not seen the leader of REAL Ilgar Mamedov and the deputy chairman of the party Musavat Tofig Yagublu and even the other defendants during the riots.

In the afternoon, the court will continue to listen to the witnesses, whose total number is over a hundred.

* On January 23, 2013 drunken workers of the Chirag hotel damaged a local man's car, and then began to insult all the residents of Ismayilli.

This aroused the indignation of the residents who trashed and burned the hotel. The riots stopped on Jan. 24 after the internal troops meddled. 18 people were arrested.

Ilgar Mamedov, Tofig Yagublu and 16 defendants are charged under Articles 233 (organization and active participation in activities that disrupt public order ) and 315.2 ( resistance to authority ) .

The trial began on November 4, 2013. -0 -

 

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