Giyas Ibrahimov Told Lawyer about Sophisticated Torture

The lawyer Elchin Sadigov visited the youth activists Giyas Ibrahimov and Bayram Mammadov, arrested on charges of drug trafficking, after having drawn graffiti on the monument to Heydar Aliyev, in the Baku Detention Center.

As Sadigov wrote on his page on Facebook, Ibrahimov prepared a detailed text about the torture to which he was subjected in various police agencies.

However, this statement was taken away from him, saying that torture cannot be complained of.

Therefore, the lawyer himself recorded the testimony by Ibrahimov, who asked to distribute it to the media.

"On May 10, 2016, leaving the Slavic University, I took 30 steps and immediately received a strong blow to the head and then a second one and fell face down. I was quickly picked up and dragged into a blue car. In the car on both sides there were people in civilian clothes. Accusing me of inscriptions on the monument, they started to beat and insult me," Ibrahimov said.

He was brought to the Baku Main Police Office and dragged into a large room, where they began to beat him again.

"Most of all, they hit me on the head and the back of the neck. I began to lose consciousness. They handcuffed me behind my back and poured with water. I was told that two witnesses were called and they would pull out drugs, and the witnesses would see it. Then they got something out of the left pocket of my jacket, saying it was the drugs.

I said it was not mine and I do not smoke, they planted it when I lost consciousness. Then they began to beat me again. The pain was unbearable," continued Ibrahimov.

At the same time Mammadov was beaten in another room. When he shouted, they clamped his mouth and punched him in the stomach.

"They started to beat me again, demanding that I apologize to the monument and put flowers there, while AzTV would shoot that. I refused. Then they demanded that I confess to drugs. Again I refused and they began to beat me again. They took off my trousers and threatened to rape me with a baton.

I was forced to admit false charges of drug. Then they said that at home, too, they would find drugs, and I had to admit it. I said I would not accept it and they told me that if I refused, my parents would be arrested," Ibrahimov said.

During the search of the apartment, the police planted drugs under the mattress of his mother and "found" them.

"On the way back I was again beaten and they grabbed my hair and began to spit me in the face. The beatings continued in the Main Police Office, where I was forced to write a confession that I bought drugs from an Iranian citizen named Akram," Ibrahimov noted.

Then, the beating continued in the presence of the chief of the office, and from there he was taken to the police insulator of the Narimanov District, where the beating continued.

Ibrahimov was forced to sweep the yard, collecting cigarette butts, and to clean the toilet. "I was abused and filmed on the phone. This went on all the time while I was there," said Ibrahimov.

On May 12 Sadigov the lawyer saw it all with his own eyes, and after the protest he was removed from the police by force.

"I told about torture in court on May 12, and the judge ruled that the investigation of torture would be held. However, I was again brought to the Narimanov district police and beaten up until I was brought to the Baku detention facility. Now my whole body and bones hurt, especially the head," said Ibrahimov.  -16D-