Baku / 12.07.19 / Turan: The Union for the Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan (UFPPA) made a statement in connection with the death of Aydin Gurbanov, accused of the Ganja events, in the detention center on July 10.
The human rights structure believes that he died from "the disease received as a result of torture."
"Due to the plight of Aydin Gurbanov, lawyers have repeatedly appealed to the court to release the defendant under house arrest. However, these appeals were ignored," UFPPA Coordinator Elshan Hasanov told Turan.
"This is not the first death of a prisoner in Azerbaijani torture chambers," he added.
At the same time, there are specific cases of death in prisons of the blogger Mehman Galandarov, the chief editor of the newspaper Tolyshi Sado Novruzali Mammadov, the deputy chairman of the Islamic Party Vagif Abdullayev, a group of servicemen arrested in the Terter case, and others.
"Those arrested in connection with the Ganja events all, without exception, experienced inhuman, barbarous torture, expressly prohibited by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. At the same time, the courts ignore the statements of the arrested and their lawyers on the facts of torture," the statement reads.
The UFPPA put forward demands to investigate all the facts of torture and punish those responsible, deprive of the powers judges who pass deliberately unjust sentences, carry out a genuine reform of the judicial system, and also replace the incapable Ombudsman.
They also require the release of all political prisoners.
It should be noted that on July 1, the Prosecutor General"s Office and the Ministry of Justice issued a statement in which they denied allegations of torture against Gurbanov.
* The UFPPA was created at the end of 2018 by Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy, Elshan Hasanov, head of the Center for Monitoring Political Prisoners, human rights activist Hilal Mammadov, and Eldaniz Guliyev, chairman of the Council of Intellectuals of Azerbaijan. -06D--
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