Call of Committee Against Repression and Torture of Azerbaijan to International Human Rights Organizations

The coordinator of the Committee against Repression and Torture of Azerbaijan, Ogtay Gyulalyev, needs your help. He was hit by a car on October 29, 2019, when he was returning from a Committee meeting, and fell into a coma from his injury. Unfortunately, due to untimely medical assistance, his state of health became critical, and he is in a serious situation.

Doctors at the American Hospital in Istanbul are fighting for his life. Qualified medical assistance is provided thanks to the financial support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, which has been allocating funds for treatment for more than a month. However, from December 10, the Fund suspends financing of the treatment in Turkey and offers to continue the treatment in Azerbaijan. We are not sure that in Azerbaijan this treatment can be effective. To continue qualified treatment, funds and advisory assistance from leading experts in the field of brain injury are needed.

Addressing you, we urge you to make your efforts to support the further treatment of Ogtay Gyulalyev and save his life.

We hope for your human rights solidarity.

 Committee Against Repression and Torture

Baku, 04.12.2019