In the regions of Azerbaijan , local police departments put pressure on persons involved in the case of Anar Mammadov, the head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies center (EMDSC.) Many of them sent to the courts missives on no claims against the defendants in this case. However , the police require them to participate in the trial, Turan was told by a source in the civil society in Azerbaijan.
* Mammadov, Executive Director of EMDSC Suleymanli Bashir, and the head of the Public Association for International Cooperation of Volunteers (PAICV) Elnur Mammadov, are charged under the Criminal Code 5 - tax evasion , illegal business, abuse of office , embezzlement on a large scale and official forgery.
A lawsuit was filed at the end of October 2013. On December 17 Mammadli was taken into custody, and two others are under house arrest.
Anar Mammadov has been recognized by Amnesty International as “prisoner of conscience.”
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