Bruises on Leyla Yunus

Constant insults and tortures of the head of the Institute for Peace and Democracy, consistent fighter for human rights, the well-known human rights activist Leyla Yunus, continue to amaze and disturb. Does all this shame and medieval punishment occur in the country, claiming the creation of a state of law, the owner of the forthcoming European games, the country Presiding  the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, a member of the UN Security Council?

From history we know that  such ill-treatment was in   Stalin's camps with people declared "enemies of the people." However, the then regime "legitimized" such treatment, including  torture, beatings of prisoners, the use of "decoy" for the individual pressure - all of this was reflected in the regulations, orders and instructions of the "people" of the Interior. By the way, the survivors, investigators, prison guards, the NKVD workers of the Stalinist regime, were subject to serious punishment for the torture of prisoners. Judges, who passed illegal sentences, were convicted themselves. Another part of them was punished by fate. The disturbed balance between crime and punishment was restored, though very small.

 The coming to power of uneducated, illiterate, random people who cannot draw lessons from history,  is leading the country to disaster. We're going through such a tragedy. It seems that the authorities like to see the mutilated leg bruises of Leyla Yunus, forgetting not only  humanity, but also the responsibility before the law and Allah.

What do you want to achieve, demonstrating the power  over  a woman? The  laws adopted by you prohibit to place  in  one camera with criminals a person who was jailed for the first time, and whose guilt has not been proved. Does the court authorizing the arrest of Yunus, decided on  her placing in the same cell with Nurida Huseynova?  Not Leila, and any woman , a citizen of the country, an Azeri woman, mother  is beaten, insulted and humiliated in the cell. Where are the principles of humanism approved by you? Where are traditions and national mentality so frequently mentioned by you?

It seems that you have forgotten even the most basic human values.  The was  time when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his entourage  did the same.  Shahinshah allowed waste, injustice, used petrodollars  on pompous events, for which he was criticized by believers. Assuming for a humiliating  for himself to give interview  in the Iranian press, he instructed his prime minister, Amir Abbas Huveyda to state in press and declare: "We have the money, we can spend  it as we  want, and  who does not want to see it, let him close his eyes."

 Just three months after these words the eyes of the Iranian people opened, but there was no one  to close  eyes  of Mohammed Reza dying in an airplane.

 I wonder why the dictators of modern times forget the bitter fate of their predecessors? However, it would be fair to note  that Shah in any case showed aristocratism towards  women, and Farah Khanum  also   supported  such behavior of  Shah.

So bitter journey through history began with  mutilated  bruised legs of Leyla Yunus. Today the international community wants to protect her, and  to free her from the torment and despotism of the authorities.  The authorities of the country, the territory  of which is under occupation  for 20 years, is looking for high treason in the noble deeds of a fragile woman, but forgets about corruption or bribery,  that has seized the country.

No one wants to understand  that  a betrayal of the country whose territory is occupied  is  the appropriation of surface and underground  resources. This is the reality of Azerbaijan - on the one hand the luxurious life of the ruling elite, on the other - sick,  legs of Leyla Yunus covered with bruises.